Objectivity Quotes

• Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Form
  • Finite
  • Objectivity

• Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation

  

  Paul Strand
  • Time
  • Photography
  • Essence

• 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
  • Facts
  • Author
  • Lawyer

• 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
  • Different
  • Growth
  • Encounters

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Real

• Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

  

  Michael Arrington
  • Persons
  • Common
  • Journalist

• I emerged in that incredible moment in the 1980s when all kinds of social questions about subjectivity and objectivity, about who was making, who was looking.

  

  Carrie Mae Weems
  • Moment
  • Questions
  • Emerged

• 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
  • Persons
  • Subjects
  • Designer

• Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
  • Understanding
  • Mistake
  • Doe

• Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Justice
  • Nothing
  • Objectivity

• 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.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Stress
  • Speech
  • Adjectives

• “All of us see a story according to our own lights. None of us is capable of objectivity.”

  

  Annie Barrows
  • Story
  • Lights
  • Objectivity

• Richard Stark writes a harsh and frightening story of criminal warfare and vengeance with economy, understatement and a deadly amoral objectivity-a remarkable addition to the list of the shockers that the French call roman noirs.

  

  Anthony Boucher
  • Story
  • Warfare
  • Objectivity

• I had confidence in my quality, so I was always positive and had good objectivity.

  

  Riyad Mahrez
  • Quality
  • Positive
  • Objectivity

• It should be apparent that the belief in objectivity in journalism, as in other professions, is not just a claim about what kind of knowledge is reliable. It is also a moral philosophy, a declaration of what kind of thinking one should engage in, in making moral decisions. It is, moreover, a political commitment, for it provides a guide to what groups one should acknowledge as relevant audiences for judging one's own thoughts and acts.

  

  Michael Schudson
  • Thinking
  • Political
  • Decision

• Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Prejudice
  • Scientist
  • Objectivity

• When you take a photo at 1/1000 of a second, the moment can become an eternal fact, an eternal moment. So we have a philosophical problem of objectivity and subjectivity.

  

  Eikoh Hosoe
  • Philosophical
  • Eternal
  • Photo

• I write with as much objectivity as I can.

  

  Ernest Gaines
  • Writing
  • Objectivity

• Objectivity is very hard to achieve. It needs some research and patience. If you want to do something honest, you have to explore it a little longer.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Needs
  • Littles
  • Achieve