Objectivity Quotes - Page 2

Education is the best means-probably the only means-by which nations can cultivate a degree of objectivity about each other's behavior and intentions. It is the means by which Russians and Americans can come to understand each others' aspirations for peace and how the satisfactions of everyday life may be achieved.

Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

Islam is a religion based upon knowledge, and a denial of the possibility and objectivity of knowledge would involve the destruction of the fundamental basis upon which not only the religion, but all the sciences are rooted.

In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective.

To see another with clarity and objectivity, one first must master stillness.

We do not know. We can only guess.

Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him.

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from our own opinions. It obviously endangers the freedom and the objectivity of our discussion if we attack a person instead of attacking an opinion or, more precisely, a theory.

He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge, such as only really intellectual men have, who have no axe to grind, who never wish to shine, or to talk others down, or to appear always in the right.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.

"Is," "is," "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.

I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.

When, in 1913, in a desperate attempt to rid art of the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the form of the square... the critics... sighed, "All that we loved has been lost. We are in a desert"... But the desert is filled with the spirit of non-objective feeling.

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.

The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears.

Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.

Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.