Quotes About Objectivity

Early in my career as an engineer, I'd learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.

To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see

I want to see the whole picture - as nearly as I can. I don't want to put on the blinders of 'good' and 'bad', and limit my vision. If I used the term 'good' on a thing I'd lose my license to inspect it, because there might be bad in it. Don't you see? I want to be able to look at the whole thing.

By de-personalizing, we can view a situation more objectively, and come up with better ways of solving the problem.

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity.

Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game.

The idea that objectivity is best reached only through rational thought is a specifically Western and masculine way of thinking--one that we will challenge throughout the book.

B — Breathe! Do I need to pause, step back, and look at this situation more objectively?

Newspapers should have no friends.

Admitting you were wrong about something isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of objectivity and maturity.

So if you are afraid of being wrong or losing money, it means you will never learn enough to compensate for the negative effects these fears will have on your ability to be objective and your ability to act without hesitation.

Scientific objectivity is one of our most deeply held, and crippling, illusions.

The call for journalists to adopt objectivity was an appeal for them to develop a consistent method of testing information—a transparent approach to evidence—precisely so that personal and cultural biases would not undermine the accuracy of their work.

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

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not

The most important goal I had in mind was to convince people to stop blindly trusting algorithms and assuming that they are inherently fair and objective.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

The sacredness of the male mind is allied to the struggle for power in that men, claiming objectivity, can also claim universal validity for their values. In this sense the word man, correctly in their view, can encompass women, although the converse is not true and the word woman can never stand for the general but only for the particular.

Clarity demands a certain degree of objectivity, from the world as well as the observer.

One political party may be preferable to another. A news channel, though, can't be a vehicle for a political party and be anything but a bad thing.

This is the life of the mind in the twilight of the meritocracy: cliquish, careerist, and militantly committed to the mere appearance of objectivity.

The world is inseparable from the subject, but from a subject which is nothing but a project of the world, and the subject is inseparable from the world, but from a world which the subject itself projects.