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Quotes About Bias

If I was English would I be respected a bit more? Yes, I think so, that's the truth.
~ Kevin Kilbane
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.
~ Tryon Edwards
Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Fair and balanced is doublespeak for bite-out-chunks-of-truth until only irrelevancy is left, byte-sized, entertaining irrelevancy.
~ Larisa Alexandrovna
Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.
~ John Ralston Saul
In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.
~ Richard Mottram
Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.
~ Charlotte Lennox
I think the media's the kind of thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
~ Jack White
If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you'll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical people become when they disagree with you.
~ Jonathan Haidt
Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.
~ Margaret Oliphant
We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
~ William Faulkner
Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.
~ William Shakespeare
A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Every misogynist came out of a woman.
~ Mat Johnson
...You want a special truth. *You* want the truth to be a truth that *you* like. You want it to be a pretty little truth that fits what you already believe!
~ Terry Pratchett, Nation
Impression forms opinion, opinion deforms truth!
~ Abhijit Kar Gupta
Every exceptional bias against Christianity I find to be evidence for its validity.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
People forget that there's two sides to every story. Of course somebody is going to tell the side of it that makes them look good and exaggerate the rest to make everyone else look bad.
~ David Reeves
The truth, when it matches with what we want, think, or believe already, we love it. But, when it doesn't, we either hate it or ignore it, or both.
~ Auliq Ice
The truth is helpless when up against perception
~ Zack W. Van
?nsano?lu nedense anlayamad??? ?eylere kötülemeye meyilli.
~ Elif Shafak
...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
~ Richard Dawkins
Some people say, 'Do not judge the book by its cover!' Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say anything they want to say, but for me, cover does matter.
~ Toba Beta
certain kinds of music will never be accepted by certain people.
~ Michael Azerrad