Quotes About Bias

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Memoirs, as everyone knows, make bad history.

The mistake of man is that he always seeks explanations which uphold his view of the world.

We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.

Facts are much more malleable than prejudices.

Years later it is common for it to be thought that the possession of an opinion on a subject, which is active, is deemed more important than having any information on that subject, which is passive; and that the vehemence (feeling) with which an opinion is held is more important than the facts (knowledge) upon which it is based.

It has often been said that anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools; it would be more accurate to say that socialism is the anti-Semitism of intellectuals...

Thou thinkest as man. In many things thou judgest as human affection persuadeth thee.

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

For he was big, and I don't care what you say, for every inch a man grows over five foot five, his brain diminishes proportionately. All my life I have had a prejudice against overgrown louts.

In theory we understand people, but in practice we can't put up with them, I thought, deal with them for the most part reluctantly and always treat them from our point of view. We should observe and treat people not from our point of view but from all angles, I thought, associate with them in such a way that we can say we associate with them so to speak in a completely unbiased way, which however isn't possible, since we actually are always biased against everybody.

Even so, his friend the journalist Malcolm Muggeridge would conclude that "he was at heart strongly anti-Semitic." At

Girls read a boy book, but boys don't necessarily want to read a girl book.

When actors do anti-hero roles, they are critically acclaimed. When heroines do negative roles, they are sidelined from the industry.

People have a negative impression of New York that I don't think is quite fair.

The Indian media has a very negative approach and very negative thoughts.

The media dwells mostly on negativity.

People think that women don't negotiate because they're not good negotiators, but that's not it. Women don't negotiate because it doesn't work as well for them. Women have to say, 'I really add a lot of value, and it's in your interest to pay me more.' I hate that advice, but I want to see women get ahead.

I think there's a bias against fat people on network television.

Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.

I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.

As a comedian and satirist you have to be neutral, because everyone's fair game. Once you show bias, you lose that.

The 'New York Times' is not reviewing books by non-white people.

New Yorkers never really liked Too $hort.