Charles Curtis Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Disclosure is the antidote to partiality and favor.

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

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

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

I've truly tried to be apolitical.

On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.

I try not to make it personal, and I don't care about partisan politics one way or the other.

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

What am I unbiased about? Let's see. I don't think about being unbiased, at all. With the entertainment industry, there was a point at which I felt like I had to be not only pro-myself but anti-others.

Is it possible to be totally partial?

Objectivity? I've always had an objective.