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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

Rainer Maria Rilke

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

Stephen Chow

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Helene Deutsch

Objectivity requires taking subjectivity into account.

Lorraine Code

Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny — and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do).

Stephen Jay Gould

Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him

Heinz von Foerster

It is hardest of all to give up the last slivers and shreds of objectivity, but only by doing so can faith finally free itself from all that is outworn and become as fully voluntary, creative and courageous as it isrequired to be today.

Rev Don Cupitt

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

Robert Morgan

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

Abraham Maslow

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

Pamela Stephenson

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity -- much less dissent.

Gore Vidal

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people

Peter Jennings

Objectivity has about as much substance as the emperor's new clothes

Connie Miller

The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.

Warren E. Burger

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Martin Luther King Jr

There is also an artistic element which is lead by the film maker. Issues of what is reality and objectivity are as always relevant as someone is going to edit the film.

Ben Edwards

In the United States, there is constant news on this topic, but less than 1 percent of priests are guilty of acts of this type. The constant presence of these news items does not correspond to the objectivity of the information nor to the statistical objectivity of the facts.

Pope Benedict XVI