Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Alekhine

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

David Weinberger

Transparency is the new objectivity

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.

Chogyam Trungpa

We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.

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.

Theodor Adorno

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

Michael Arrington

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

Laura Innes

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

Paulo Freire

One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.

Sufjan Stevens

I've always been a visual person, I'm formerly a graphic designer. I've always seen myself as an observer. I like to maintain objectivity and don't get too intimately involved in my subjects.

Peter Jennings

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

Ted Koppel

Beginning, perhaps, from the reasonable perspective that absolute objectivity is unattainable, Fox News and MSNBC no longer even attempt it. They show us the world not as it is, but as partisans (and loyal viewers) at either end of the political spectrum would like it to be. This is to journalism what Bernie Madoff was to investment: He told his customers what they wanted to hear, and by the time they learned the truth, their money was gone.

Steve Wozniak

You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.

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).

Richard Donner

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

Warren E. Burger

The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.

Walter Cronkite

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

Vincent Bugliosi

My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

Stephen Chow

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

Thomas Kuhn

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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.

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.

Ken Auletta

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

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.

Howard Fineman

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

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.