Quotes About Objectivity

It's not bad or good. It just is. That's something you'll find out if you decide to go into this line of work. You have to take things as they are, not how you hear they're supposed to be.

Of course I'm all right, professor. I had to be. A is A.- John Galt

humanity's darkest evil, the most destructive horror machine among all the devices of men, is non-objective law.

Quieres saber qué está mal en el mundo? Todos los desastres que han asolado al mundo provinieron del intento de los líderes de ignorar el hecho de que A es A.

Bill Brent knew nothing about epistemology; but he knew that man must live by his own rational perception of reality, that he cannot act against it or escape it or find a substitute for it—and that there is no other way for him to live. He

Ni la vida ni la felicidad pueden lograrse persiguiendo caprichos irracionales.

Truth is objective. A man should be respected for telling it, not threatened.

Don't let your good nature cloud your critical eye. The critical eye should always be cold and clear.

Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are—or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms. When other people disagree with us, we immediately think something is wrong with them.

others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.

Fashionable academic movements like postmodernism and critical theory (not to be confused with critical thinking) hold that reason, truth, and objectivity are social constructions that justify the privilege of dominant groups.

A]s moral philosophers through the ages have pointed out, a philosophy of living based on "Not everyone, just me!" falls apart as soon as one sees oneself from an objective standpoint as a person just like others. It is like insisting that "here," the point in space one happens to be occupying at the moment, is a special place in the universe.

Science is thus a paradigm for how we ought to gain knowledge—not the particular methods or institutions of science but its value system, namely to seek to explain the world, to evaluate candidate explanations objectively, and to be cognizant of the tentativeness and uncertainty of our understanding at any time.

It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.

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.

Newspapers should have no friends.

When you're making a film, you don't really have time to consider what the whole of your film is. And then, when you're releasing your film and promoting your film, you're looking at it in a different way. Then, as you move away from it, you start to look at it objectively and think, 'What could I have done better?'

There is also an artistic element which is lead by the film maker. Issues of what is reality and objectivity are as always relevant as someone is going to edit the film.

My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.

I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.

It'd be nice to claim that the American press, while maintaining objectivity and balancing against bias, is still inherently American - that they are patriots who love this country even as they report on its defects.

My job as a reporter is not to know what I think.

I don't like to put labels on anyone. I'm a reporter. I'd rather observe and describe and question.

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.