Harry Frankfurt Quotes

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

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

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

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

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.

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.

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

Disclosure is the antidote to partiality and favor.

You have to show reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

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.

It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

Objectivity? I've always had an objective.

I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.

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

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

I'm very old-fashioned - I don't operate with an agenda. If you're a biographer, you want to be passionate about what you're doing but dispassionate about how you do it.

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

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

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

There are no facts, only interpretations.