Objectivity Subjectivity Quotes

“As a writer you must keep a tight rein on your subjective self—the traveler touched by new sights and sounds and smells—and keep an objective eye on the reader.”
― William Knowlton Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

“The awareness that seeks to know is the very object of its own seeking.”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“I love objectivity when mine.”
― Brian Spellman, Cartoonist's Book Camp

“It doesn’t take objectivity to know what you want, and you’re not objective enough to know what you need.”
― Amy Neftzger, The Orphanage of Miracles

“In the abyss of our consciousness, we are oblivious to the billions of possibilities surrounding us, our universe is limited by the unfathomable expense of our limitations; we are prisoners of ourselves, not that we want to escape, but we are tied up nonetheless. Our horizon does not extend beyond the eyes of our mind. - On Our Vision”
― Lamine Pearlheart, Awakening

“Objectivity is a false god, and the worship of this idol is particularly pernicious in disciplines like journalism and history. It is not possible to be objective----although of course it is possible to be honest. By pretending to attain to objectivity, a writer's fundamental faith commitments are not eliminated, but rather submerged----and they then come out in interesting and intellectually dishonest ways.”
― Douglas Wilson, Black and Tan: Essays and Excursions on Slavery, Culture War, and Scripture in America

“In that prejudice disguised as objective you see the negation of poetry.”
― Giannina Braschi, Putinoika