Karl Barth Quotes

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

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

Personality is lower than partiality.

There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.

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

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

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.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

No one is a good judge in his own cause.

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

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

I warn my readers against my biases.

Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred

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.

No one is ever bias-free, but some people let their biases influence their actions more than others.

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

You want to get both sides of the story and it's my role to try and bring that out of people.

If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth or untruth thus becomes clear. However, if the soul is infected with partisanship for a particular opinion or sect, it accepts without a moment's hesitation the information that is agreeable to it. Prejudice and partisanship obscure the critical faculty and preclude critical investigation. The results is that falsehoods are accepted and transmitted.

Where you stand should not depend on where you sit.

With the experience to judge, one need not pre-judge.

Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.

It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.

Investigate what is, and not what pleases.