Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours about who their favorite character on 'Friends' is.

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

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.

Personality is lower than partiality.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot.

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.

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.

No one is a good judge in his own cause.

Disclosure is the antidote to partiality and favor.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show the darkness but to put out our own eyes.

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.

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

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