Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Exaggeration is my only reality.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

I’ve never found the truth to be fair and balanced.

Sometimes it is necessary to make things clearer than the truth.

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

Americans see the world as they want it to be rather than the way it is.

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

I'm objective because I tell the truth.

People want to see the world the way they want to see it, not the way it is.

The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.

Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.

Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.