Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes

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

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

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

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.

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.'

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

As soon as anybody puts anything on film, it automatically has a point of view, and it's somebody else's point of view, and it's impossible for it to be yours.

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

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.

Any government that likes to call themselves democratic should welcome Snowden and allow him to live in their country.

What you think you see and what you think a guy did wrong, maybe he did right. Or you see a touchdown pass, but the guy might've been wrong. Something crazy might have happened. You don't know that. That's the toughest thing when it comes to judging play on a football field.

I think what we should do as historians is understand. And we can have our own views about how things turned out, but I think, in making judgements, we're getting into tricky territory.

Statistics are easy to remove ourselves from. A story, you are implicated in, and you have to choose what side you are going to be on.

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.

Some people seek to understand, and some people seek to portray what they want to portray.

Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.

Defoe was level and anyone who says otherwise is picking hairs

Is it possible to be totally partial?

I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.

What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.

I genuinely don't know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.

I am also full of admiration for Chelsea Manning [formerly PFC Bradley Manning]. Regardless of which side of the argument you're on, he stood up for something he felt wasn't right. That was an extraordinarily brave thing to do, and I think he was unfairly punished for it. It's a really big deal what he did, and he did it for the betterment of all us, including the soldiers on the ground, as well as the civilians caught up in those conflicts.

Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.