Bias Quotes
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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
In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
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
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
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
Evidence and expertise have a well-known liberal bias.
— Paul Krugman
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
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
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
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
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
Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.
— Bias Of Priene
I generally watched Fox for news, simply because it was slightly harder to spot the bias.
— Joseph Talluto
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
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
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
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
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
All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.
— Carl L. Becker
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