Unprejudiced Viewpoint Quotes

Politics can cloud objectivity.

As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.

Facts are neither Republican nor Democrat.

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair.

But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in the room. If you want to totally misunderstand why something is supposedly important, find the biggest fan of that particular thing and ask him for an explanation. He will tell you everything that doesn't matter to anyone who isn't him. He will describe paradoxical details and share deeply personal anecdotes, and it will all be autobiography; he will simply be explaining who he is by discussing something completely unrelated to his life.

Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies; but he cannot wholly escape their influence.

And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked. You miss the freshness and magic of the moment. Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades.

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as "addled mosses dank"), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing-nothing that you couldn't, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say.

You could say that any book that takes a position is not fair, unless you keep saying, 'On the one hand, on the other...' and take a great deal of trouble to present both sides. That kind of journalism tends not to be very interesting.

An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.

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

I am trying to be as impartial as possible. As you can tell from the trailers for Mad Men, I am a person who believes that you should know nothing.

Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

Especially when you talk about the power of documentary filmmaking, you can't really have a slant; financially, you can't have a slant on the end goals.

An outsider's point of view is always handy.

But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.

What I have tried to show is that the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity - that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is no intention in the universe.

I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.

But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.

If you’re going to give objective advice, you’ve got to take the self interest out of the equation.