#partial

Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good. ↗

— Herman Wouk

#far #good #looking #looking good #partiality

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. ↗

— Horace

#hut #impartial #kings #knocks #pale

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#call #impartiality #indifference #may #mean

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. ↗

— William Osler

#best #constituted #content #even #fragments

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#make #more #observations #observer #ourselves

And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#beyond #confined #confined space #hang #last

People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#come #context #entire #human #human voice

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things. ↗

— Victor Cousin

#development #equal #equal right #equity #eternal

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 Haraway

#objectivity #partial-perspective #rhetoric #science-studies #situated-knowledge

Giese was an unemotional man, but then in the study of Solaris emotion is a hindrance to the explorer. Imagination and premature theorizing are positive disadvantages in approaching a planet where—as has become clear—anything is possible... The fact is that in spite of his cautious nature the scrupulous Giese more than once jumped to premature conclusions. Even when on their guard, human beings inevitably theorize. ↗

— Stanisław Lem

#the-other #imagination