Ernest Gaines Quotes

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

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

It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona.

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.

Disclosure is the antidote to partiality and favor.

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

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

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.

I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.

There are still personalities that you bond with or a fighting spirit that you connect with, but as a host you have to stay impartial and root for all of them.

I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.

This is 'Southland,' so we don't editorialize.

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

There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.

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

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.

There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.

I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those views in terms of your role as a judge. It's the difference between being a judge and being a law professor.

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

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

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.

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

I am not a rabid partisan.