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• It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist.

  Georgie Anne Geyer

  Auras, Way, Journalism

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• Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.

  Jose Padilha

  People, Principles, Different

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• When, in 1913, in a desperate attempt to rid art of the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the form of the square... the critics... sighed, "All that we loved has been lost. We are in a desert"... But the desert is filled with the spirit of non-objective feeling.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Art, Squares, Feelings

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• Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Mean, Views, Giving

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• Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears the watchword "scientific objectivity" and of emerging at another door which looks out upon a variety of projects for changing, renovating, or revolutionizing society. In consequence, we feel the need of a more explicit account of how the student of society passes from facts to values or statements of policy.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Doors, Bears, Needs

  Richard M. Weaver, Ted J. Smith (2000). “In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• 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

  Prejudice, Ornaments, Saws

  Maxims for a Modern Man 2098

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• 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 Everything, Marketing, Needs

  Steve Wozniak, Gina Smith (2006). “IWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon - Getting to the Core of Apple's Inventor”

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• It's an academic book, and it's discussed under academic criteria. German historians cultivate so-called objectivity. They persuade themselves that they can switch off the subjective and therefore the unsettling.

  Gotz Aly

  Book, Academic, Criteria

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Science has long been in the value business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of scientists abstaining from making value judgments; rather, scientific validity is the result of scientists making their best efforts to value principles of reasoning that link their beliefs to reality, through reliable chains of evidence and argument.

  Sam Harris

  Reality, Best Effort, Long

  "The Moral Landscape". Book by Sam Harris, 2010.

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• The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal 'objectivity,' as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its 'elegance,' or its congruity with our residual beliefs

  William James

  Truth, Air, Quality

  William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.199, Penguin

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• No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort 's principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

  Colin Wilson

  Believe, Thinking, Psychological Needs

  "Mysteries". Book by Colin Wilson, 1978.

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• 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

  Designer, Graphic, Visuals

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics.

  Lee Gutkind

  Clever, Nonfiction, Boring

  Source: speechwriting-ghostwriting.typepad.com

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• The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes.

  Simon Blackburn

  Absolutism, Facts, Reason

  Simon Blackburn (2005). “Truth: A Guide”, p.15, Oxford University Press

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• Properly conducted scientific studies . . . give us a pretty good idea of when something is likely to be correct. To me, pretty good is a linguistic statistic that falls somewhere in between more likely than not and beyond a reasonable doubt, et avoides the pitfalls arising from the belief in complete objectivity.

  Robert A. Burton

  Fall, Humility, Ideas

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• In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Science, Example, Truth Is

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• After that really, I spent the majority of the spring going to tons and tons of regional festivals throughout America. Every corner of the country, I took the movie to twenty film festivals or something to that extent. I've lost track. Probably done Q&As 40-50 times at this point. It's always hard to watch something I've made, but I've got a little more objectivity and kind of see the film as not just an extension of myself.

  James Ponsoldt

  Country, Spring, America

  Source: collider.com

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• Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character, Historical Knowledge, Profound

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• In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Photography, Reality, Patents

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• The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.

  Warren E. Burger

  President, Needs, Court

  Warren E. Burger (1984). “Significant Supreme Court Opinions of the Honorable Warren E. Burger: Chief Justice of the United States”

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• The main difference seems to be that, whereas photography still claims some sort of objectivity, digital imaging is an overtly fictional process. As a practice that is known to be capable of nothing but fabrication, digitization abandons even the rhetoric of truth that has been such an important part of photography's cultural success.

  Geoffrey Batchen

  Photography, Practice, Differences

  Geoffrey Batchen (2002). “Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History”, p.134, MIT Press

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• 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

  Self, Knowing, Giving

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• Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at the service of truth, for concepts of credibility, of objectivity, the need to archive, for the consolidation of institutions like the museum, in short, towards a need to control memory.

  Joan Fontcuberta

  Photography, Memories, Distance

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• He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge, such as only really intellectual men have, who have no axe to grind, who never wish to shine, or to talk others down, or to appear always in the right.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Shining, Intellectual

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan

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• Not only did I rediscover every experience of my life, I had to live each unfulfilled desire as well—as though they’d been fulfilled. I saw that what transpires in the mind is just as real as any flesh and blood occurrence. What had only been imagination in life, now became tangible, each fantasy a full reality. I lived them all—while, at the same time, standing to the side, a witness to their, often, intimate squalor. A witness cursed with total objectivity.

  Richard Matheson

  Real, Blood, Imagination

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