Elizabeth Thornton Quotes

Being unbiased is a lot like being humble: as soon as you think you are, you aren’t. Neither are a finite state of being but a continuous struggle to not allow our perspectives poison our opinions.

The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

But when you're in something together, it's very hard to be objective and you're very subjective.

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.

We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.

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

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

We all have mental models: the lens through which we see the world that drive our responses to everything we experience. Being aware of your mental models is key to being objective.

Our thoughts and our feelings, of course, are not wholly objective, they're inherently subjective. And that's the danger, and I think as long as we're aware of it and can push back against it, I don't think that these two views are necessarily incompatible.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

Whenever we say a person's name, notice whether we have stated more than a fact. For example, the judgment, 'She's thoughtless' goes beyond the facts 'She said she'd call me and she didn't.'

Facts do not speak.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.

You cannot watch yourself dispassionately.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.