Steven Wright Quotes

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.

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.

IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.

… without animus or partiality.

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

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

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

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.

No one should be judge in his own case.

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

I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

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

Anybody who doesn't think I want the Lakers to win is a fool. But I'm no homer.

It sounds funny, but I always try to keep an open mind about what I'm writing about. Sometimes I squeak my opinions in there, but generally I don't. I try to be objective about things that I'm writing about.

Disclosure is the antidote to partiality and favor.

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

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

We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.

You could say that any book that takes a position is not fair, unless you keep saying, 'On the one hand, on the other...' and take a great deal of trouble to present both sides. That kind of journalism tends not to be very interesting.