Quotes by Objectivity Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths. Miguel Syjuco subjectivity reactions objectivity Quantitative methods are no more synonymous with objectivity than qualitative methods are synonymous with subjectivity. Mike Patton subjectivity method objectivity An expert gives an objective view. He gives his own view. Morarji Desai objectivity views giving When I was growing up, all I wanted to do was fit in, but if you're perpetually an outsider, it gives you a perspective that might have a little more objectivity than people who really feel connected to their social environment in which they grow up. Moby growing-up perspective objectivity We have traditionally thought of knowing in terms of subject and object and have struggled to attain objectivity by detaching our subjectivity. It can't be done, and one of the achievements of postmodernity is to demonstrate that. What we are called to, and what in the resurrection we are equipped for, is a knowing in which we are involved as subjects but as self-giving, not as self-seeking, subjects: in other words, a knowing that is a form of love. N. T. Wright objectivity knowing self Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective. Nancy McKeon objectivity objectives watches The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they practice tyranny. Nancy Pearcey objectivity practice loss A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view. Nate Silver objectivity views commitment We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be done it should be done was born in the nineteenth century. And along with it, there developed a profound belief in all the principles through which invention succeeds: objectivity, efficiency, expertise, standardization, measurement, and progress. It also came to be believed that the engine of technological progress worked most efficiently when people are conceived of not as children of God or even as citizens but as consumers-that is to say, as markets. Neil Postman objectivity children ideas But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile. Nikola Tesla effort objectivity brain The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed. Norwood Russell Hanson subjectivity objectivity influence The media is uncritical, and their so-called the concept of objectivity translates into keeping everything within the Beltway. However, Iraq was quite different. Here, there were flat-out lies, and they sort of knew it. They were desperately trying to make connections between Saddam Hussein and 9/11. Noam Chomsky iraq objectivity lying Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!.. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only. Oriana Fallaci objectivity hypocrisy lying I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry. P. J. O'Rourke objectivity light responsibility Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity. Pamela Stephenson psychologist objectivity Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography. Pamela Stephenson objectivity perfect writing Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective. Paul Biya objectivity democracy culture We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices, so that they become mere ornaments with which to parade our objectivity. Paul Eldridge ornaments prejudice objectivity Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation Paul Strand objectivity photography essence One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity. Paulo Freire subjectivity objectivity «23456789101112»
