Jon Stewart Quotes

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

I'm supposed to be neutral when I do my job. But I'm a fan and I have my favorites.

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

I've learned that you shouldn't have preconceived notions about anybody.

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.

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

Personality is lower than partiality.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

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.

Disclosure is the antidote to partiality and favor.

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

Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.

You can't judge people for favouring somebody. That happens in every field.

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.

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

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.

Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.

No matter what I say, honestly, people would only judge me the way they want to.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

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

One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to some of them to be able to ascribe incurable defects, such as belonging to a certain sex; or base motives, or lack of understanding, to anyone whose views they disagree with.