Top 100 Objective Quotes
#1. Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
H.L. Mencken
#2. it was not the objective that made one a hero - it was the journey, the quest itself.
Morgan Rice
#3. Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.
Jim Rohn
#4. No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
Theodor Adorno
#5. The objective of hypertext research is to save the planet.
Ted Nelson
#6. Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
John Hutton
#7. As against the "invisible hand" of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have the kind of society that is caring and humane.
Pierre Trudeau
#8. Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.
Lisel Mueller
#9. There exists no objective basis on which to elevate one species above another.
Richard Dawkins
#10. The views of the European Union are fully reflected in this text, particularly the key objective of the EU, namely vigorously to address the disarmament of Iraq and to do so within the framework of the UN Security Council.
Javier Solana
#11. My objective is to leave my family adequately catered for, but I want my children to make their own way. I want them to have pride in their own achievements.
John Caudwell
#12. My primary objective is to encourage dialogue between all Christians, both Jew and Gentile, and to open more lines of communication with Jews who still have yet to accept Jesus of Nazareth as their Messiah.
James Mikolajczyk
#13. 'Tell me about yourself.' When interviewers ask this, they don't want to hear about everything that has happened in your life; the interviewer's objective is to see how you respond to this vague yet personal question.
Travis Bradberry
#14. I would have to think about it for two or three months before I decided to do something which would have meaning. And it would have to be more than just an impression or pleasure. I would need an objective, a meaning. That is the only thing that could help me.
Marcel Duchamp
#15. I have many moods, and there is no objective reality. And I kind of live by that.
Juliana Hatfield
#16. In trying to become 'objective,' Western culture made 'objects' of things and people when it distanced itself from them, thereby losing 'touch' with them.
Gloria E. Anzaldua
#17. I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.
Chuck Close
#18. Truly huge artistic collaboration on the Internet seems to work only if the gang has a well-defined objective.
Clive Thompson
#19. The purpose of Purgatory is to completely internalize, in your own individual soul, what Christ has completely accomplished in objective reality in His Passion. Nothing
Peter Kreeft
#20. The foreign policy of this government is driven by politics - to extend a revolution worldwide. My objective with regards to foreign relations is to benefit all Venezuelans.
Henrique Capriles Radonski
#21. The objective of the Classical Art of Riding is to train the horse not only to be brilliant in the movements and the exercises of the High School but also to be quiet, supple and obedient and by his smooth movements to make riding a true pleasure
Alois Podhajsky
#22. You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back? - Clement Stone
Joseph Grenny
#23. Duress impacts relationships in one of two ways. It either tears people apart... binding them tightly in a common objective.
Emily Thorne
#24. The importance of immobility and silence to photographic authority, the nonfilmic nature of this authority, leads me to some remarks on the relationship of photography with death. Immobility and silence are not only two objective aspects of death, they are also its main symbols, they figure it.
Christian Metz
#25. Keeping children secure and comfortable at night contributes toward a lifetime of easy sleep for them, an objective worthy of the weariness you may feel now.
Norma Jane Bumgarner
#26. The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.
Pauline Neville-Jones
#27. Experience shows us that most people's votes are based on their biases, not on objective reality. Elections are a collective gut reaction. That any good comes of it at all is the miracle of democracy.
David Horsey
#28. For hundreds, even thousands, of years, people completely failed to see that variations in the objective exchange-value of money could be induced by monetary factors. They tried to explain all variations of prices exclusively from the commodity side.
Ludwig Von Mises
#29. In terms of the short-term objective [halving world hunger by 2015], the position I have always taken is that we don't need genetically modified organisms.
Jacques Diouf
#30. The destruction of the enemy's armed forces is but a means
and not necessarily an inevitable or infallible one
to the attainment of the real objective. The object of war is not to destroy the enemy's tanks but to destroy his will.
Liddell Hart
#31. Birch fallacy is the assumption that you can infer subjective intention from objective consequence: we lost China to the Communists, therefore the President of the United States and the Secretary of State wished China to go to the Communists.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#32. We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#33. Pregressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensity social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation
Angela Y. Davis
#34. As clearly and objectively as we think we see things, we begin to realize that others see them differently from their own apparently equally clear and objective point of view
Anonymous
#35. A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver.
Paulo Freire
#36. No one enters politics to serve their community. They do it to feed their own rampant egos. Self-interest remains the number one priority. A politician's sole objective is to win office, and everything else, including what's best for the country and its citizens, comes a distant second. Marlowe's
Nathan Allen
#37. If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm.
David Halberstam
#38. The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
Major Taylor
#39. The idea that God could only forgive our sins by having his son tortured to death as a scapegoat is surely, from an objective point of view, a deeply unpleasant idea. If God wanted to forgive us our sins, why didn't he just forgive them? Why did he have to have his son tortured?
Richard Dawkins
#40. Make the main objective of the enemy difficult and they will lose the will to fight.
Amish Tripathi
#41. Evidence, on the other hand, is objective.
Bob Olson
#42. My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.
Daniel Ellsberg
#43. Don't go into business with the sole objective of making lot of money. If you put service, quality, and customer satisfaction first-the money will follow.
Paul Clitheroe
#44. All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death.
Swami Vivekananda
#45. The fact that such objective and enduring knowledge exists (and moreover, belongs to all of us) is nothing short of a miracle. It suggests that mathematical concepts exist in a world separate from the physical and mental worlds
Edward Frenkel
#46. Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake.
Karl Popper
#47. Look at my haircut. I am ready for the war. The objective is to win the Premiershp. I don't want to dominate, to finish without defeat, record points or goals or consecutive wins. The Premiership is so difficult you cannot be focused on that. I just think about winning.
Jose Mourinho
#49. The camera is objective. When it records a face it can't make any hierarchical decisions about a nose being more important than a cheek. The camera is not aware of what it is looking at. It just gets it all down.
Chuck Close
#50. Life is planned with one principle objective to make you do all the particular things you particularly don't want to do.
Mark Twain
#51. Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
Ted Rall
#52. I am not in the market to create jobs, build an
empire, or leave a legacy; those are the positive fallout of successful
economic warfare. My prime objective is wealth creation.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#53. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
Aristotle.
#54. Modern art is childish - not childlike, remember, childish; not innocent but stupid, insane, pathological. We have to get rid of this trend. We have to create a new kind of art, a new kind of creativity. We have to bring to the world again what Gurdjieff calls objective art.
Rajneesh
#55. If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.
Hunter S. Thompson
#56. The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#57. we can form an objective judgment of the nation, race, or continent to which we belong only when we have lived for a time in a foreign country and so are able to look at our own country from without. How,
C. G. Jung
#58. The mainstream has lost its way. Crime fiction is an objective, realistic genre because it's about the real world, real bodies really being killed by somebody. And this involves the investigator in trying to understand the society that the person lived in.
Michael Dibdin
#59. Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.
David Deutsch
#60. The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.
Marie Kondo
#61. A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
C.S. Lewis
#62. If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.
Brian Mulroney
#63. From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power.
Donna J. Haraway
#64. Too often, parents today allow their desire to please their child to govern their parenting. If your relationship with your child is governed by your own desire to be loved by him or her, the odds are good that you will not achieve even that objective.
Leonard Sax
#65. The photograph as an objective representation of reality simply does not exist. The photograph does not explain to you what is going on to the left or to the right or above or below the frame. Oftentimes, it doesn't even explain to you what is going on inside the frame.
Pedro Meyer
#66. You can apply yourself voluntarily to reading and learning, but you cannot really apply yourself to thinking: thinking have to be kindled, as a fire is by a draught, and kept going by some kind of interest in its object, which may be an objective interest or merely a subjective one.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#67. As a writer I have persisted in my uncertainty, alternating between novels which could charitably be considered literature and world reporting which by another stretch of objective standards might be called history.
James A. Michener
#68. In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.
Carlos Ghosn
#69. An analysis of Scripture is all right as long as it is in a very subordinate position, and as long as we are careful it does not so grip us, that we become interested only in an objective, intellectual sense. It is a unique Word, and it must not be approached just as any other book is approached.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#70. President Obama has been very clear as he laid out the goal, and the objective is to close Guantanamo.
Cliff Sloan
#71. Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe.
Neel Burton
#72. I am beyond critical of my own work. I always tell actors they have to watch themselves 4-7 times in a given scene before they can be remotely objective.
Julie Ann Emery
#73. We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.
Gerry Adams
#74. Truly transformational knowledge is always personal, never merely objective. It involves knowing of, not merely knowing about. And it is always relational. It grows out of a relationship to the object that is known - whether this is God or one's self.
David G. Benner
#75. The objective is not to "make your links appear natural"; the objective is that your links are natural.
Matt Cutts
#76. I can only answer that I tried to tell the truth and, if not be objective, at least be fair; history is not served when reporters prize trepidation and propriety over the robust journalistic duty to tell the whole story.
Randy Shilts
#77. I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on it will, I am sure, be improved.
Cordell Hull
#78. A Warrior, A Winner has no fear. His only objective is to change the atmosphere, because he knows that then he controls the outcome.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#79. In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective.
Pierre Bourdieu
#80. Our objective in taking these actions is to create a lean, agile structure, with streamlined and stable processes that will unleash DaimlerChrysler's full potential.
Dieter Zetsche
#81. Having decisions made not in midnight deals but in the light of objective evidence and after consulting those who will be affected should itself provide some reassurance that the EU is trying to reform itself.
John Hutton
#82. The most important thing that I know about living is love. Nothing surpasses the benefits received by a human being who makes compassion and love the objective of his or her life. For it is only by compassion and love that anyone fulfills successfully their own life's journey. Nothing equals love.
Sargent Shriver
#83. Anything that inhibits, impedes, or prevents this movement toward the Ultimate Complexity is evil. The wonderful thing about this definition of good and evil is that it is both objective and universally acceptable.
Gregory David Roberts
#84. True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.
Oskar Kokoschka
#85. He became ... the ideal of that virtue which delights in its own work ... doing everything with simplicity and dignity, for he seemed to realize that his objective added nobility to everything he did.
Honore De Balzac
#86. Ethics is not a mystic fantasy
nor a social convention
nor a dispensable, subjective luxury ... Ethics is an objective necessity of man's survival
not by the grace of the supernatural nor of your neighbors nor of your whims, but the grace of reality and the nature of life.
Ayn Rand
#87. We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective, and from being internal to external.
Josh McDowell
#88. You had to stay consistent to life's delusions. All you had was your perspective, so objective truth was meaningless. You had to choose a dream and stick with it. Everything else was a con.And once you had tasted truth and love in the same potent cocktail there had to be no more tricks.
Matt Haig
#89. God grant, if we must have two eyes, that they may be both clear ones, one the eye of faith wholly fixed on Christ, the other the eye of obedience equally and wholly fixed on the same objective!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#90. Your objective of being in love with each other will require both you and your spouse to focus your attention on the other's most important needs.
Willard F. Harley
#91. Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality
itself.
Stanislav Grof
#92. The persona in my stories may be truer to my "real" self than any alleged objective, factual "I" that I could replicate for the purposes of storytelling.
Norman Lock
#93. Often times it is difficult to rely on your judgment when the focus on your true objective is out of alignment.
Mark W. Boyer
#94. In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.
Alberto Moravia
#95. At a time when our moral standing in the world has been weakened by a rubber stamp Justice Department that placed the Bush Administration above the law, we now need someone who is objective and independent. And, make no mistake, Eric Holder is independent.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
#96. Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
Billy Joel
#97. To somebody like Obama, substantive opposition is not tolerable. The objective is to eliminate all opposition - be it a political party, be it media, or what have you.
Rush Limbaugh
#98. I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear objective.
Nigel Dennis
#99. My main objective with every album is to capture a moment in time, which usually makes the whole process very relaxing. I only discover in retrospect when looking back at the songs how my life is going!
Alanis Morissette
#100. There is no ultimate objective reality within the ten thousand states of mind. Most people don't like to hear this. But there are ten thousand realities, and each is definitely unifying.
Frederick Lenz
