Oscar Wilde Quotes

There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

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

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not the way they look to you or how you feel about them or how you would like them to be.

I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.

I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.

I'm very old-fashioned - I don't operate with an agenda. If you're a biographer, you want to be passionate about what you're doing but dispassionate about how you do it.

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.

There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.

It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.

No one is a good judge in his own cause.

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

I've truly tried to be apolitical.

I think most people are indifferent in their evaluation of what is good or bad.

I love giving you my opinion, but I don't like taking sides.

I don't believe it's humanly possible to be free of bias.

To my mind, a journalist needs to espouse objectivity and distance, while a writer practises an art that is more free.

There is no human objectivity.

You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.