Quotes About Bias

We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

Don't waste your time with explanations. People only hear what they want to hear.

Cómo podían conocer los médicos extranjeros las enfermedades de una mujer china? Quizá entiendan las enfermedades de los bárbaros, pero no las de los refinados y cultos chinos...

I simply cannot accept that there are on every story two equal and logical sides to an argument.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.

What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.

Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.

I think the basic problem is that everybody thinks they know what the truth is, and sometimes they're even distorting the truth to make their arguments.

I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.

I may be biased, but I think the cover art is stunning.

Being from a classical environment, I've always been provoked by classical musicians thinking that classical music is so much greater art than pop. I've always been annoyed by that.

There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.

[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

White is an attitude.

I was relieved to come across a more expansive population study of nearly seventy thousand patients that showed that the medical care given to overweight patients is no different than what non-overweight patients receive.14 Despite an ingrained societal bias against obesity—one that affects physicians as well as patients—the medical profession seems to be able to deliver comparable treatment.

Every time a crime was committed by a Muslim, that person's faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. When a crime is committed by a Christian, do they mention his religion? ... When a crime is committed by a black man, it's mentioned in the first breath: 'An African American man was arrested today...' But what about German Americans? Anglo Americans? A white man robs a convenience store and do we hear he's of Scottish descent? In no other instance is the ancestry mentioned.

I'd need to praise each of the columnists at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Guardian, who've worked tirelessly to avoid facts that might contradict their narratives.

the media truly is a cabal of hyperpartisan, habitual liars who are destroying an entire industry from within.

Although the media has historically always been left-leaning, we've abandoned our pretense—or at least the effort—to be objective today. We've become political activists, and some could argue propagandists.

The lie behind the buzzword of 'diversity' could not be made more clear: if you don't conform, then you don't count as 'diverse,' no matter what your personal background.

progressives see racism, sexism, and discrimination everywhere, except where it actually exists.