Top 259 Objectivity Quotes & Sayings

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

Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework - that to me is the art of photography.

I didn't want to lose my subjectivity and my objectivity about my work.

Objectivity? I always have an objective.

The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populist terms. They attack news based on verifiable fact for its liberal bias, for, in essence, failing to be objective, and promise a return to genuine objectivity.

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

For years, we just accepted the premise that the reporters from that J-school mentality of neutrality and objectivity were just laying out the facts. We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite was biased, and that he used feigned objectivity as the cudgel to change the American narrative from being a right of center one to being a left of center one.

I personally don't prefer acting and directing in something because I don't have the same objectivity.

Objectivity is almost a choice you make. As a burlesque performer, I didn't choose to be objectified.

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

It should be totally fine to question the objectivity of scientists and the power structures in scientific institutions. The physical laws of the universe are objective, but human beings in any context are not. That includes with regard to science. To some extent, the supposed objectivity of science has given a lot of extra cover to very subjective and eccentric approaches to exploring aspects of ourselves and the universe around us.

Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.

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

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him.

To see another with clarity and objectivity, one first must master stillness.

Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure.

If you're deeply engaged in an event, you're part of it. But if you're outside of it, disinterested, you are the regard that registers history. And that disinterestedness is different from objectivity. The objective view sees only the event, while the disinterested one participates as well as views by creating that link to history. It's a type of viewing that's both inside and out of the event, that brings to the viewing the capacity for human emotion, for compassion, but holds it openly. And objectivity excludes the human element, and is therefore not a point of view open to humans.

The middle class male thinks he has a monopoly on objectivity.

The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

The real evil isn't the objects of technology but the tendency of technology to isolate people into lonely attitudes of objectivity. It's the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil.

We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

To increase our objectivity, we must learn to switch off the mini-movies. Objectivity requires us to be mindful, present in the moment, and experiencing what is happening without judgment.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Politics can cloud objectivity.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

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

Transparency is the new objectivity.

Objectivity? I've always had an objective.

There is no journalist without opinions, and there's no real objectivity, but we can strive toward it.

The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.

Objectivity is just male subjectivity.

News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.

Feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledges

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

Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation

Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.

The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.

There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.

Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.

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).

Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as "addled mosses dank"), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing-nothing that you couldn't, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say.

Many journalists become very defensive when you suggest to them that they are anything but impartial and objective. The problem with those words "impartiality" and "objectivity" is that they have lost their dictionary meaning. They've been taken over. "Impartiality" and "objectivity" now mean the establishment point of view.

Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.

Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.

I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

There is no human objectivity.

Objectivity and presence of mind are essential in such positions where sacrificial temptations are not always resistable.

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

As a journalist, you want to try to maintain that objectivity and detachment.

One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.

'Fact checking' is opinion journalism pretending to be some sort of heightened objectivity.

It is only by being exchanged that the products of labor acquire a socially uniform objectivity as values, which is distinct from their sensuously varied objectivity as articles of utility.

One influential philosophical position about the use of probability in science holds that probabilities are objective only if they are based on micro-physics; all other probabilities should be interpreted subjectively, as merely revealing our ignorance about physical details. I have argued against this position, contending that the objectivity of micro-physical probabilities entails the objectivity of macro-probabilities.

Objectivity is a fallacy...there are different opinions, but you dont give them equal weight.

Objectivity is the purpose of documentary filmmakers.

It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.