Objectivity Quotes
The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they practice tyranny.
We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices, so that they become mere ornaments with which to parade our objectivity.
My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.
Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive no-voice.
One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity.
Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?
Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure.
The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject
It doesn’t take objectivity to know what you want, and you’re not objective enough to know what you need.
Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.
There is no journalist without opinions, and there's no real objectivity, but we can strive toward it.
What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially.
Although self-reported endorsement of sexist attitudes didn’t predict hiring bias, self-reported objectivity in decision making did.
There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.
If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway.
It is only by being exchanged that the products of labor acquire a socially uniform objectivity as values, which is distinct from their sensuously varied objectivity as articles of utility.
The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics.
Objectivity and presence of mind are essential in such positions where sacrificial temptations are not always resistable.
I don't believe in objectivity. I observe the observer's paradox every moment I'm filming. Your presence is changing everything; there's no mistaking it. And you have a responsibility.
Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.
Objectivity is very hard to achieve. It needs some research and patience. If you want to do something honest, you have to explore it a little longer.
Objectivity is a fallacy...there are different opinions, but you dont give them equal weight.
In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.
But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.
One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, "had made both sides see themselves as they are.
I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts.
It's not objective. It's subjective.” Katya hooks her bra behind her back. “It's just what you think, not the truth.
Each one of us can aspire to be on TOP simply by keeping a strict focus on Time, Objectivity and Prioritising. As simple as that!
The first thing I am going to tell my successor is, don't trust the military men – even on military matters." JFK
When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?
The clarity of perception makes reality look as it is.
Wisdom is the God-given ability to see life with rare objectivity and to handle life with rare stability.
If truth is not objective, there is no good or evil. There is only what people do and how people feel about it.
We do not see things as they are, nor do we even see them as we are, but only as we believe our story to have been.
God's Word is especially suited to directing those who want to focus primarily on the nature and direction of their own hearts.