Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

It's very hard to be objective about something you're in, especially when you set it up against things that you experienced as a child.

History is neither written nor made without love or hate.

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'

Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.

We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine.

It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.

Our thoughts and our feelings, of course, are not wholly objective, they're inherently subjective. And that's the danger, and I think as long as we're aware of it and can push back against it, I don't think that these two views are necessarily incompatible.

I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

But when you're in something together, it's very hard to be objective and you're very subjective.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions.

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

We may try to see things as objectively as we please. None the less, we can never see them with any eyes except our own.

Being unbiased is a lot like being humble: as soon as you think you are, you aren’t. Neither are a finite state of being but a continuous struggle to not allow our perspectives poison our opinions.

Anytime emotions are involved, you cannot come up with an impartial and objective assessment of any given problem.

People just see what they want to see.

You can have opinions, but it doesn't mean they're right.

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

The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.