Quotes by Objectivity Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure. Stanislaw Lem objectivityfiremen In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth. Soren Kierkegaard objectivityexamplescience A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity. Stephen Chow subjectivityobjectivityneeds Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny - and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do). Stephen Jay Gould failingobjectivitytests Much of the appeal of feminism is that it encourages women to do what they always felt like doing anyway: take everything personally. But to succeed at the highest level, you need some objectivity, which feminism hates. Feminists see objective reality as a conspiracy out to make them feel bad about themselves. Steve Sailer objectivityhatereality You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would. Steve Wozniak forget-everythingobjectivitymarketing I've always been a visual person, I'm formerly a graphic designer. I've always seen myself as an observer. I like to maintain objectivity and don't get too intimately involved in my subjects. Sufjan Stevens graphicdesignerobjectivity Islam is a religion based upon knowledge, and a denial of the possibility and objectivity of knowledge would involve the destruction of the fundamental basis upon which not only the religion, but all the sciences are rooted. Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas islamobjectivityfundamentals Beginning, perhaps, from the reasonable perspective that absolute objectivity is unattainable, Fox News and MSNBC no longer even attempt it. They show us the world not as it is, but as partisans (and loyal viewers) at either end of the political spectrum would like it to be. This is to journalism what Bernie Madoff was to investment: He told his customers what they wanted to hear, and by the time they learned the truth, their money was gone. Ted Koppel perspectiveobjectivitypolitical The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject Theodor Adorno objectivitysufferingneeds Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists. Thomas Kuhn scientistprejudiceobjectivity There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. Thomas Nagel admittingobjectivityreality Is religion subjective? Nay, its soul is in objectivity, in an Other whose Life is our true life, whose Love is our love, whose Joy is our joy, whose Peace is our peace, whose burdens are our burdens, whose Will is our will. Self is emptied into God, and God in-fills it. Thomas Raymond Kelly objectivityselflove-is My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others. Vincent Bugliosi mistressobjectivityfacts I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged [Gerald] Posner in their books that they're going to have a much, much more difficult time with me. As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others. Vincent Bugliosi mistressobjectivitybook The bottom line about the information possessed by non-Western peoples is that the information becomes valid only when offered by a white scholar recognized by the academic establishment; in effect, the color of the skin guarantees scientific objectivity. Vine Deloria Jr. objectivitycolorwhite Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything. Vladimir Kramnik objectivityunderstandingmistake Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him. Voltaire objectivityhatemen Imperialism, or the conquest and colonization of other populations, other peoples, has had as one of its side effects the growth of a discourse of objectivity. That is, when you encounter something new, something strange, something different, you have to find categories for it, you have to come to terms with new objects. W. J. T. Mitchell encountersobjectivitygrowth I think it's very important to distinguish between objectivity - which tends to be open, flexible, skeptical of its own certainty and open to new information - and objectivism - which thinks, "No, we know it all, we've got it, so real thinking and learning can come to an end." W. J. T. Mitchell objectivityrealthinking«23456789101112»
