Quotes About Bias

About "historians", family or otherwise:"Their greatest crime is that they presume to know what happened, how things come about, when they have only what the past chose to leave behind-for the most part, they think what they are meant to think and it's a rare one that sees what really happened, behind the smoke screen of artifacts and paper.

I think that people assume when they meet me that I'm going to judge what they're wearing.

A lot of people just assume men's tennis is better.

I came from the NFL, so people didn't like that, or they just try to make assumptions, and I think when you assume, you look stupid.

Many times, people attack the well-to-do people. They see an opportunity.

If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.

Every news network within their division has opinion and then has news.

The media dresses things up. There's a lot of inaccuracy.

Why is it when we see a white guy, we automatically think, 'Let's turn this dude into a star?'

TV can edit things to make anyone look good or bad.

I have never seen anyone at CNN ever say, 'Boy, here's how we're going to deal with this today to put this guy down and elevate this guy up.' I've never seen it.

Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.

You never see girls running after engineers.

It's a big error to think that because you like somebody's work, you're going to like him.

Directors assume I'm, like, establishment.

By and large, the theatre establishment is run by a white majority.

Each society, as I've written elsewhere, betrays its own characteristic "time bias"—the degree to which it places emphasis on past, present, or future. One lives in the past. Another may be obsessed with the future.

Groupthink can then be formed with respect to this or that information

People fill in the unknown with what fits with THEIR known.

After all, people judge one another according to their own feelings. It is only the miser who sees other enticed by money, the lustful who see others obsessed by desire.

Intuitives tend to define intelligence as "quickness of understanding" and so prejudge the case in their own favor, for intuition is very quick.

The difference between the true and the false is only a prejudice of ours.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

Like other people, anthropologists may see only what they want to see, even when what they want to see is nothing.