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.

Peter Jennings

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

Karl Popper

We do not know. We can only guess.

Karl Jaspers

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.

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.

Jonathan Coe

Objectivity is just male subjectivity.

Joe Pantoliano

It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love.

John Carroll

The virtual suppression of ethical discussion after 1845 produces the semblance of purely descriptive analysis, dressed in the mantle of positivist objectivity, analysis which is, in fact, strung to a framework of crude, because unexplicated, moral assumptions.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

For us, mind has nature for its premise, being nature's truth and for that reason its absolute prius. In this truth nature has vanished, and mind has resulted as the idea arrived at being-for-itself, the object of which, as well as the subject, is the concept. This identity is absolute negativity, for whereas in nature the concept has its perfect external objectivity, this its alienation has been superseded, and in this alienation the concept has become identical with itself. But it is this identity therefore, only in being a return out of nature.

Dave Barry

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

Chogyam Trungpa

We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.

Charles Baudelaire

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

Charlie Munger

Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great thinker.

Stephen Jay Gould

Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny - and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do).

Richard Donner

I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective.

Sufjan Stevens

I've always been a visual person, I'm formerly a graphic designer. I've always seen myself as an observer. I like to maintain objectivity and don't get too intimately involved in my subjects.

Stephen Chow

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

Thomas Kuhn

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.

Steve Wozniak

You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.

Michael Arrington

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

Theodor Adorno

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject

Laura Innes

But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

Paulo Freire

One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.

Michael Schur

The news is a public service. It's a way to inform people of what's going on in their world. And when you make it about ratings and make it about ad dollars, there's no incentive to inform people. The incentive is to be sensationalistic and get as many people to watch as you can without any regard for truth or objectivity.

Gary Zukav

According to quantum mechanics there is no such thing as objectivity. We cannot eliminate ourselves from the picture. We are part of nature, and when we study nature there is no way around the fact that nature is studying itself.

George Soros

Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity.