Partiality Quotes

• The general feeling is, if you don't treat everyone the same you're showing partiality. To me, that's when you show the most partiality, when you treat everyone the same. You must give each individual the treatment that you feel he earns and deserves, recognizing at all times that you're imperfect and you're going to be incorrect oftentimes in your judgment.

  John Wooden

  Giving, Feelings, Coaching

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• A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.

  Solon

  Lying, Half, Truth Is

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• The sun and moon shine on all without partiality.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (1967). “Li Chi: Book of Rites: An Encyclopedia of Ancient Ceremonial Usages, Religious Creeds, and Social Institutions”

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• Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Government, Favoritism, Natural

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• Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Views, Society, Citizens

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.223, University of Georgia Press

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• Personality is lower than partiality.

  Goldwin Smith

  Personality

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• In the Way of Heaven, there is no partiality of love; it is always on the side of the good man.

  Laozi

  Love, Heart, Men

  Laozi (2015). “Tao Te Ching”, p.79, Booklassic

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• Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Justice, Neutrality, Impartiality

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• What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, People, Literature

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• Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Reality, Anachronism, Symmetry

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• Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Death, Sovereign, Warp

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.429

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• I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

  Ron Chernow

  Strong, Angry, Relative

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• Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.

  Herman Wouk

  War, Alaska, Wind

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• We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.

  Wendell Berry

  Simple, Trying, Limits

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.292, Counterpoint

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• How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!

  Henry Clay

  Unjust, Fortune

  Letter, 4 December 1801

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• The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Writing, Law

  De Oratore. It is more important that these maxims be observed by U.S. intelligence analysts than by historians.

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• When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation, you will have no rigidity.

  Confucius

  Transformation, Process, Rigidity

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• Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.

  Goldwin Smith

  Eye, Political, Enemy

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no.

  Marquis de Sade

  Government, Skills, Answers

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• But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.

  Jane Austen

  Revenge, Integrity, Mind

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger Abbey”, p.182

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• Partiality, in the sense that objectors commonly use the word, is impossible in the sphere of grace. It can exist only in the sphere of justice, where the persons concerned have certain claims and rights.

  Loraine Boettner

  Rights, Justice, Grace

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• Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

  William James

  God, Vision, Essentials

  Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.600, Simon and Schuster

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• The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

  Goldwin Smith

  Sympathy, Party, Humanity

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

  David Hume

  Philosophical, Brain, Agitation

  David Hume (1854). “The Philosophical Works”, p.438

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• A blessed and indestructible being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; so he is free from anger and partiality, for all such things imply weakness.

  Epicurus

  Blessed, Weakness, Trouble

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