Jehane Noujaim Quotes

There are no facts, only interpretations.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not the way they look to you or how you feel about them or how you would like them to be.

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

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

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

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

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

There is no human objectivity.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context which is extremely vast, old, firmly established, or rooted in a network of conventions ... and yet which still remains a context.

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

No one individual can tell the truth.

Subjectivity is objective.

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.

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.

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

A belief may be larger than a fact.

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

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this.

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.

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

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