Celia Green Quotes

I've learned that you shouldn't have preconceived notions about anybody.

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

Opinions should not be allowed to become conclusions

What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context which is extremely vast, old, firmly established, or rooted in a network of conventions ... and yet which still remains a context.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

Objectivity? I've always had an objective.

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

There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours about who their favorite character on 'Friends' is.

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

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

Whenever we say a person's name, notice whether we have stated more than a fact. For example, the judgment, 'She's thoughtless' goes beyond the facts 'She said she'd call me and she didn't.'

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.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

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

You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.

With the experience to judge, one need not pre-judge.

It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.

Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.

Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.

There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.

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.

Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not enhancing our perception.