Ezra Pound Quotes

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies; but he cannot wholly escape their influence.

I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither 'good' or 'bad', and who knows neither love nor hatred.

I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.

What I have tried to show is that the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity - that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is no intention in the universe.

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

I'm sometimes embarrassed by how clinical I can become when I'm out reporting.

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

When you talk to family and friends, they can't tell you anything from an impartial point of view because they have a vested interest in you.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Facts are neither Republican nor Democrat.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair.

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

You cannot watch yourself dispassionately.

You have to approach something with indifference, as if you had no aesthetic emotion. The choice of readymades is always based on visual indifference and, at the same time, on the total absence of good or bad taste.

Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.

It sounds funny, but I always try to keep an open mind about what I'm writing about. Sometimes I squeak my opinions in there, but generally I don't. I try to be objective about things that I'm writing about.

But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

If you’re going to give objective advice, you’ve got to take the self interest out of the equation.

It helps to have “has beens” on commissions because they have no political ax to grind.

You could say that any book that takes a position is not fair, unless you keep saying, 'On the one hand, on the other...' and take a great deal of trouble to present both sides. That kind of journalism tends not to be very interesting.