Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Jose Mourinho

Everyone has a right to an opinion. I can arrive in England and express my opinion. If criticism were ferocious and without intellectual objectivity they should show me the way to their airport. It is important to have an opinion and not be afraid to express it, knowing there will be criticism.

Eric Alterman

But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions.

Paul Biya

Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.

Eisaku Sato

If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual.

Manuel Puig

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

Tryon Edwards

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

Napoleon Hill

What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom he or she is not in accord on many subjects.

Mark Twain

Travel is lethal to prejudice.

Leon Botstein

I know nothing about this subject, but I do have prejudices, which I am more than happy to share with you.

Charles Bukowski

That's what friendship is, sharing the prejudice of experience.

Elbert Hubbard

Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.

Elizabeth Blackwell

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is ...

Donald Kagan

You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.

Allan Bloom

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Walter Reisch

A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.

James Hansen

I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.

Luis Walter Alvarez

I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.

John Charles Polanyi

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

Leo Szilard

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

Alan Alda

I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world.

Ben Okri

I was going to be a scientist.

Arthur Koestler

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Thomas R. Cech

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.