Quotes About Bias

That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: Shut up, he said, so that they do not realize that you are here with me.

La curiosidad es el nombre despectivo que los hombres dan a la sed de conocimiento que tienen las mujeres.

It's amazing how people like judging.

This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?" "Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego." "You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.

It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.

Hate is love without enough data.

I always love it whenever Rose delivers one of her witty one-liners—particularly when it's a completely serious situation. The contrast always amuses me, but then, I'm biased.

The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.

Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.

Journalists love to show their compassion.

Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.

In Dallas, in Houston, the local stuff is great. But the national media is really brutal. So you know, I'd love to see the media get honest.

It's not at all hard to understand a person it's only hard to listen without bias.

What people think is relative just like who people love.

es posible que el amor sea totalmente objetivo, o totalmente subjetivo?

Women aren't very bright, Rip says. Studies have been done.

Our interpretations reveal less about God or the Bible than they do about ourselves. They reveal what we want to defend, what we want to attack, what we want to ignore, what we're unwilling to question.

Most histories are written by the winners of conflicts, but those written by the losers—if they survive—are often more interesting.

But I started to realize that it doesn't begin like this, that anybody can be the target for prejudice, all you have to be is too something . Too short, too fat, too clever, too big, too small, too slow, too new, too different from what others think of as normal.

The concept of whiteness could cover a multitude of sins.

Far too many people will believe anything of those they hate, no matter how absurd or patently fabricated it may be.

Current feminism, with its antiscience and social constructionist bias, never thinks about nature. Hence it cannot deal with sex, which begins in the body and is energized by instinctual drives.

But the male lexicographers had somehow neglected to coin a word for the dislike of men. They were almost entirely men themselves, she thought, and had been unable to imagine a market for such a word.

We tend not to be especially critical when presented with evidence that seems to confirm our prejudices.