Quotes About Bias

What we acknowledged as a nation during the one-and-a-half year trial of George Zimmerman is that the white majority's public imagination of black people was based on their fear of us, not the reality of who we are.

If the Senate impeachment trial were a real court, all 100 senators would be removed as jurors for bias for or against the president.

Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even small gifts make them susceptible to being biased. If we took doctors seriously as human animals, we might hurt them - and they might hurt us - a lot less.

Truth is only what we like to hear....

An ideologue is one who places agenda above truth.

When we see things through our fixed, false beliefs, science becomes superstition.

Identifying someone by his, or her, outward appearance is often the first and most common error in the world

Prejudice is an act of violence.

Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie.

The urge to want some bit of information to be true often clouds our ability to assess why that information may be false.

Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can't hear it.

Can we ever see the truth when desire blinds us? Or do we call it the truth because it is what we wish to see?

With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.

No matter what I say, honestly, people would only judge me the way they want to.

We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

I want you to admit that there is such a thing as white privilege.

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.

It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.

on fox news).... it's like watching a Disney movie about the news.

It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the men of one nation concerning the men of another.

Man] sees the morning as the beginning of a new day; he takes germination as the start in the life of a plant, and withering as its end. But this is nothing more than biased judgment on his part. Nature is one. There is no starting point or destination, only an unending flux, a continuous metamorphosis of all things. —Masanobu Fukuoka, THE NATURAL WAY OF FARMING