Jessica Mitford Quotes

Objectivity? I always have an objective.

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

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

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.

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

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.

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.

You cannot watch yourself dispassionately.

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.

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

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.

There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.

Objectivity is very hard to achieve. It needs some research and patience. If you want to do something honest, you have to explore it a little longer.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.

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.

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.