Jane Bryant Quinn Quotes

I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.

nobody is a good judge in his own cause!

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

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

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

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.

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

No one is a good judge in his own cause.

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred

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

We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.

No one is ever bias-free, but some people let their biases influence their actions more than others.

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

Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.

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

Is it possible to be totally partial?

To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.

My attitude is, I am not a lawyer; I am not a doctor; I am not a scientist. I am a filmmaker and I want to present what each side is saying and let the viewer come to their own conclusion.

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.

No one should be judge in his own case.

And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause