Chanel West Coast Quotes

It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.

The idea that everyone's opinion is valuable is sometimes up for question.

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.'

I think that whether we acknowledge it or not, our opinions as authors always influence our work. How can they not?

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is.

To be a good biographer, you have to be an empiricist. You know, you have to gather the evidence, you have to keep an open mind, and you have to be objective. A memoirist goes in with all the baggage of a bad biographer.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

I never read reviews of something I want to see.

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.

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

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.

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.

I don't like to talk about what other players think because, as we say in Spanish, every person is a world, their own world.

Let's be honest: Everyone has got their opinion. It doesn't mean their opinion is an intelligent one.

I always try and distinguish between facts and opinions.

I don't go into a movie with preconceived notions of where I want things to go.

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

There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.

Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.

Again and again one can listen: this is my opinion, I think this or that... As if it matters, what one or the other thinks! The point is much more to what the truth is!

There is a point when a personal opinion shades off into an error of fact.

The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.