George Orwell Quotes

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

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

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

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

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.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.

No one is a good judge in his own cause.

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.

I attack ideas. I don't attack people. And some very good people have some very bad ideas. And if you can't separate the two, you gotta get another day job. You don't want to be a judge. At least not a judge on a multi-member panel.

I'm even handed. I just point out the stupidity we all do.

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.

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

He hears but half who hears one party only.

The human mind can hardly remain entirely free from bias, and decisive opinions are often formed before a thorough examination of a subject from all its aspects has been made.

If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or doing it, we become mere political short-sellers, hoping for bad news because it's good for our ideological investment.

A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument.

Fairness is actually not having presumptive negativity written about you and always assuming the worst about you.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Personality is lower than partiality.

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

I am not prejudiced in any way.

I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.

He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want.