Quotes About Objectivity

It is, of course, extremely interesting to look back across the years questioningly, wonderingly, objectively, without detachments, though seeing "objectively" does not necessarily imply seeing truthfully.

understood the world as much as possible through description rather than judgment,

In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person. So the man who falls in love with beauty is quite different from the man who loves a girl and feels she is beautiful and can see what is beautiful about her.

Happiness, for Rand, is not mere pleasure or desire-satisfaction. It is that state of "non-contradictory joy" (Atlas 1022) that is the concomitant of achieving what one has rationally identified as objectively good.

I did not believe that the public was sophisticated enough to understand that a newsman could wear several hats and that we had the ability to turn off - nearly, you can't say perfectly, but nearly - all of our prejudices and biases.

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

We must correct what we find objectively wrong.

And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with.

Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.

I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think there is a serious effort to and a regard for facts and into taking that stuff seriously is very important to the public discourse and it's very important to democracy.

It's interesting when you're old enough to take a new, objective approach looking at your parents, frame them in a way where you are actually taking yourself out of the equation and just look at the things that are true about their life.

Back in the Vietnam War days, I attended dozens of anti-war demonstrations and the police's crowd-count never agreed with the organizers' count. My own observations never gave me clear reason to believe anybody's estimate. I don't know how people judge the size of large crowds, or how they can use techniques they sincerely believe have "objectivity." Even in looking at spilled marbles, I think people estimate very subjectively.

Being modeltheists, the Fundamentalists of course reject any model but their own Eternally True Model; but why are they always especially sarcastic and suspicious when Oriental or African sources are quoted? Bronowski, we noted, said frankly that the Japanese are incapable of seeing the world objectively — i.e. the way he saw it — but how many Fundamentalists think that, too, but are too politic to say it openly?

One concept the non-old have trouble getting their minds around is the difference between taste and judgment. It's fine not to like almost anything, except maybe Al Green. That's taste, yours to do with as you please, critical deployment included. By comparison, judgment requires serious psychological calisthenics. But the fact that objectivity only comes naturally in math doesn't mean it can't be approximated in art.

I see the search for objectivity in the social sciences as something along the lines of Zen enlightenment: I don't personally expect to achieve either of them, but I do find the pursuit worthwhile.

I've always believed that who a reporter votes for, what religion they are, who they love, should not be something they have to discuss publicly.

Being neutral is impossible in many cases, because it may mean that you are an accomplice. You can be fair and objective only by giving a listening ear to both parties. And yet your objectivity will still be scruitinized by subjective minds.

I always strive to be objective and well-balanced spectator of the situation, instead of enforcing my personal viewpoints on my readers. I believe that such an elegant approach does the best justice to subject matter. Objectivity is always the key and most important parameter in all processes of Life!

Je me efforce toujours d'être spectateur objectif et équilibré de la situation, au lieu d'appliquer mes points de vue personnels à mes lecteurs. je crois que cette approche fait de son mieux justice à sujet. l'objectivité est toujours le paramètre clé et important dans tous les processus de la vie!

Mon écriture ne peut pas représenter pleinement soit mon processus de pensée ou mes sentiments personnels au moment de la rédaction de ces pensées - parce que je me efforce toujours d'être spectateur objectif et équilibré de la situation, au lieu d'appliquer mes points de vue personnels à mes lecteurs. Je crois que cette approche fait de son mieux justice à sujet. l'objectivité est toujours le paramètre clé et important dans tous les processus de la vie!

Mon écriture ne représentent pas nécessairement soit mon état d'esprit ou de mes sentiments personnels que d'écrire ces pensées - parce que je efforce d'être spectateur objectif et équilibré de la situation, plutôt que de faire respecter mes points de vue personnels à mes lecteurs. Je crois que cette approche fait un le mieux la justice à l'objet. l'objectivité est toujours la clé!

My writing may not fully represent either my thought process or my personal sentiments at the time of writing those thoughts - because I always strive to be objective and well-balanced spectator of the situation, instead of enforcing my personal standpoints to my readers. I believe that such approach does the best justice to subject matter. Objectivity is always the key and important parameter in all processes of Life!

My writing may not necessarily represent either my state of mind or my personal sentiments as of writing those thoughts - because I strive to be objective and well-balanced spectator of the situation, rather than enforcing my personal standpoints to my readers. I believe that such approach does a best justice to the subject matter. Objectivity is always the key!

Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.