Biased Viewpoint Quotes

When you don't have access to a subject, and all you have is ex-members and critics, there is this gravitational pull toward telling a certain version of events. Scientology would say this, and they have a point, that it's like doing a portrait of a marriage in which you're only hearing from the ex-wife and not the ex-husband.

To have an opinion about somebody you've never met before is pretty superficial.

This perception that the only people that come to Crown are helpless victims and we are just sitting there preying on them, you know, I reject that absolutely and that does upset me. And I think that that is, you know, that is a spin line from the latte set, which is completely wrong.

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

I hate perception. There's far too much of it in football

Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

I can't be objective about my work, because I am so involved that I can't see it as a product to be judged. I can't see it as an outsider.

An adjective, such as 'flimsy,' describes someone's access to a thing, such as 'argument.' But that's just that someone's access. It may be accurate. But it's theirs nevertheless.

What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.

I have my opinions about the way my father was. But they are my opinions, not necessarily the truth, and they are certainly not the whole spectrum of what this man was going through. It's my young, selfish interpretation of that person.

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

Obviously, we all look at things through the filter of our own experiences.

It is a curious foible of a certain type of mind that it is unable to imagine a newspaper editor as one who may, on some public questions, honestly have the same view as that held by other persons.

Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or even abused, while others feel that my parents, while certainly flawed, also had truly wonderful qualities. And that's the way it should be, because in real life two people can look at the same president and one will see a hero and the other a villain.

I think, reading about yourself through somebody else's eyes, you're always going to have your own story.

The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth

You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form of journalism you're involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

This work is either useless or harmful, because there is nothing good about populism. If you wanted to hear my opinion on this issue, that is what I think.