Objectivity Quotes

Although this was not a comforting point of view, he did not reject it, because it coincided with on...

Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain...

Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your...

I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a...

Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a ...

Professor Smith has kindly submitted his book to me before publication. After reading it thoroughly ...

I felt that the metal of my spirit, like a bar of iron that is softened and bent by a persistent fla...

I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts...

Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.

Intellectually, what is stimulating to a young man is a problem of obvious practical importance. A y...

But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has bee...

It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in ...

[Tolstoy] denounced [many historians'] lamentable tendency to simplify. The experts stumble onto a b...

That as people age, accumulate more and more private experiences, their sense of history tightens, n...

There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to s...

Psychology has falsified love as surrender and altruism, while it is an appropriation or a bestowal ...

...there is no real person whose embodiment plays no role in meaning, whose meaning is purely object...

Granted, there is always much that is hidden, and we must not forget that the writing of history - h...

I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an...

God's Word is especially suited to directing those who want to focus primarily on the nature and dir...

Perhaps this is how it is--life flowing smoothly over memory and history, the past returning or not,...

The journalist must strive to find out what is going on and tell it, not neuter the truth in the nam...

A journalist who says, 'Well, I pissed off both sides--I must be doing something right,' is probably...

... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which...

... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which...

... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which...

... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which...

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.

He turned to her - his gesture a superb compound of relief, remorse, passionate candour and bewilder...

What baseball managers did do, on occasion, beginning in the early 1980s, was hire some guy who knew...

When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You...

Only he who is free with his time is free with his opinion.

His baseline attitude toward humans was that they could all just go fuck themselves and that he was ...