Quotes About Bias

Partyism certainly isn't as horrible as racism; no one is enslaved or turned into a lower caste. But according to some measures, partyism now exceeds racism. In

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.

Ever' gal I ever seen you with looked like an ofay.

few months, there grew up a certain prejudice against all fellow workers who were exceedingly pale.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

His Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered, and measured; and the vocation to which he considered himself called was, to weigh, number and measure as many of those objects as his allotted three-score years and ten would permit. This conviction biased all his doings, alike his great scientific enterprises, and the petty details of his daily life.

If accusations fit your prejudices, truth is easily pushed aside.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.

A man is a person who will pay two dollars for a one-dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two-dollar item she doesn't want.

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies.

The heart is never neutral.

Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.

He had but one eye, and the pocket of prejudice runs in favour of two.

An antisemite is a person who hates Jews more than is absolutely necessary.

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.

He hears but half who hears one party only.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.