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We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are - to most people - not important at all. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In fact, ever since I first learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere. — Jon Ronson

If one harbors anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, though in a sense known to be true, are inadmissable. — George Orwell

It's out there," Bitterness says. "Your monster. Mendicant Bias. Can't you feel it? — Greg Bear

In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy. — Criss Jami

His biases played a large role here, but for Komatsu bias was an important element of truth. — Haruki Murakami

One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated. — Harold Holzer

Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will betray. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought. — Robert Darnton

Jefferson said he only read the advertisements in the newspaper, because it was there he was most likely to find the truth. — Harold Holzer

Privilege is not knowing that you're hurting others and not listening when they tell you. — DaShanne Stokes

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results. — Brandon Sanderson

We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind of things in the right kind of way. C.S. Lewis — Philip Zaleski

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty. — Jean De La Bruyere

The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias — John Derbyshire

When we have a narrative in mind, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it. — Nicholas Kristof

If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most. — Penn Jillette

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. — Jonathan Swift

At best, people are open to scrutinizing themselves and considering their blind spots; at worst, they become defensive and angry. — Sheryl Sandberg

He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view. — H.W. Brands

I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias. — Anthony Burgess

The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection. — Warren Farrell

Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect. — Hippocrates

Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again. — DaShanne Stokes

These days we are experiencing an unprecedented Anglo-Saxon bias against foreign terms. — Thorsten J. Pattberg

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away. — Indira Gandhi

The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness. — Jon Stewart

Evidence and expertise have a well-known liberal bias. — Paul Krugman

I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias. — Tony Benn

A psychopathy on Anarres was rational behavior on Urras. — Ursula K. Le Guin

She is the founder and owner of Luft Books, an independent publishing company, and the author of Bias Cut, Lonely — Morgan Richter

Her mother, by showing her off all through childhood, had trained into her the instinct to defeat the expectations of others. — Stephen L. Carter

Selection Bias: basically, that your inferences will be biased if you use a non-random sample and pretend that it's random. — Uri Bram

No book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude. — George Orwell

Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality. — Bertrand Russell

New research suggests that we may hold an unconscious bias against creative ideas much like we do in cases of racism or phobias. — Anonymous

Every repetition of the choice only hardened the issue. — Barbara W. Tuchman

It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism. — G.K. Chesterton

The utter absence of proof for a proposition is proof of a successful conspiracy to destroy all proof. — George F. Will

It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias. — Simone De Beauvoir

Bias and prejudice make me angry ... more than anything. — Rod Serling

Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users. — Marshall McLuhan

...there is a particular focus of the problem faced only by men. It arises from our culture providing no room for a man as victim. — Mike Lew

All history is really nothing more than the application of ideology to the past. — Tom Clancy

There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias. — Phyllis Rose

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person. — Denis Waitley

I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago. — Sally Graham

Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary. — Alexis De Tocqueville

What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone. — Bias Of Priene

Good managers have a bias for action. — Tom Peters

We all see only that which we are trained to see. — Robert Anton Wilson

A writer at the time said, "Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer. — Harold Holzer

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis — Antony Beevor

I think that business book reporting, it's all Jim Collins, it's the story of victory; it's success bias over and over again. — Ben Horowitz

The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias. — Loretta Lynch

Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement. — Steven Weinberg

Faithfully he followed the pattern of the scientist determined to interpret the facts to suit the theory. — Mark Clifton

At some point in any adult life, we have to understand that business decisions cannot be made with an emotional bias. — Carlos Wallace

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that. — Barbara Bush

...the most important thing you must remember when dealing with a politically biased professor is to be friendly. — Lee Doren

Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire. — Bias Of Priene

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all. — Bill Clinton

I generally watched Fox for news, simply because it was slightly harder to spot the bias. — Joseph Talluto

How would we flood village and city with our information? The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn't tell them? — Frank Herbert

The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias. — F. LaGard Smith

Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder. — Samuel Johnson

Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices. — Bias Of Priene

Yeah, Silver and his math are jokes, because math has a liberal bias. After all, math is the reason Mitt Romney's tax plan doesn't add up. — Stephen Colbert

I can't promise my child a life without bias - we're all biased - but I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives. — K.K. Raghava

Forcing a subject to respond the way you want him to only confirms your bias, my dear. — Erin McCahan

One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, had made both sides see themselves as they are. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

It's also worthy of mention that every pattern has at least one small bias, and one day it will tip itself over or fall from one page to another. — Markus Zusak

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against. — DaShanne Stokes

Be slow in considering, but resolute in action. — Bias Of Priene

Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden. — Harold Bloom

I admit to a bias toward high culture. — Sandra Tsing Loh

That's such an incredibly organic bias, the idea that your squishy physical existence is some sort of pinnacle that all programs aspire to. — Becky Chambers

The best defense against partisanship is expertise. — Roger Angell

The most disgusting human trait is bias, because it typically leads to propaganda, hate and violence. — Lori Goodwin

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty. — Madeleine M. Kunin

I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass. — Wyndham Lewis

Everything is in the way the material is composed. — Joseph O'Connor

If liberals think they are losing elections because of the conservative bias in the media, they may as well give up right now. — Ann Coulter

The biggest issue about the height factor is the bias that the NFL has about it. — Doug Flutie

Although self-reported endorsement of sexist attitudes didn't predict hiring bias, self-reported objectivity in decision making did. — Cordelia Fine

The more one is aware of political bias the more one can be independent of it & the more one claims to be impartial the more one is biased. — George Orwell

College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination. — Rick Perlstein

Washington's incessant need for NEW assessments testifies to uncertainty in the capital. — Barbara W. Tuchman

When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. — Frank Herbert

The majority is wicked. — Bias Of Priene

The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners. — Alexis De Tocqueville

1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I've had both. — Ruby Wax

... Whenever the man of science introduces his personal value judgment, a full understanding of the facts ceases. — Max Weber

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any. — Carl L. Becker

The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their "gut" when they should be more rational. — Paul Gibbons

A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias.
The small man is biased and can see a question only from one side. — Confucius

We typically have a bias that tells us we are less susceptible to bias than everyone else. — Will Storr

In a man whose reasoning powers are good, fallacious arguments are evidence of bias. — Bertrand Russell

The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony. — Barbara W. Tuchman