Confucius Quotes

He hears but half who hears one party only.

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

When we can see things as they are, without projecting our mental models and fears, we are being objective. When we can understand and consider another person's point of view, we are being objective.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

No one is a good judge in his own cause.

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

I warn my readers against my biases.

The good journalist is never objective. He is always neutral.

I believe the most important thing for the media is to be objective, fair, and balanced. We should not report a story with preconceptions or prejudice.

On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.

I don't believe it's humanly possible to be free of bias.

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.

With the experience to judge, one need not pre-judge.

Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.

What am I unbiased about? Let's see. I don't think about being unbiased, at all. With the entertainment industry, there was a point at which I felt like I had to be not only pro-myself but anti-others.

The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.

There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

Personality is lower than partiality.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.