Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chogyam Trungpa

We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.

Dave Barry

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

Charles Baudelaire

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

Charlie Munger

Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great thinker.

Charlie Munger

Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.

Alexander Alekhine

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

David Weinberger

Transparency is the new objectivity

Stephen Jay Gould

Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny - and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do).

Chris Hedges

The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populist terms. They attack news based on verifiable fact for its liberal bias, for, in essence, failing to be objective, and promise a return to genuine objectivity.

Christie Hefner

Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

Mike Patton

Quantitative methods are no more synonymous with objectivity than qualitative methods are synonymous with subjectivity.

Ken Auletta

Objective is the wrong word. Rather, it's fairness. Objectivity is a false God. Instead we should strive for fairness and transparency.

Michael Arrington

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

Theodor Adorno

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject

Michael Schur

The news is a public service. It's a way to inform people of what's going on in their world. And when you make it about ratings and make it about ad dollars, there's no incentive to inform people. The incentive is to be sensationalistic and get as many people to watch as you can without any regard for truth or objectivity.

Paul Eldridge

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.

Paul Biya

Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.

Pamela Stephenson

Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.

Gary Zukav

According to quantum mechanics there is no such thing as objectivity. We cannot eliminate ourselves from the picture. We are part of nature, and when we study nature there is no way around the fact that nature is studying itself.

Frank Miller

News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.

George Soros

Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity.

Jessica Mitford

Objectivity? I always have an objective.

Jessica Mitford

Objectivity? I've always had an objective.

Howard Fineman

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

Isaiah Berlin

The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist.

Morarji Desai

An expert gives an objective view. He gives his own view.

Miguel Syjuco

Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.

Jose Padilha

Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.

Laura Innes

But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

Eric Alterman

But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions.