Quotes About Bias

that shall be the truth with them, and nothing else. Unto persons whose minds are wholly vitiated with the leaven of this corrupt affection, there is not a line in the Scripture whose sense can be truly and clearly represented; all appears in the colour and figure that their prejudices frame in their minds.

It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.

When I was a kid I watched a documentary about the movie Planet of the Apes. The first one, with Charlton Heston. They were talking about how they would make up all the extras as various types of apes, like chimps and gorillas and orangutans, and then the extras would go to lunch and they would segregate. All the people made up like gorillas would sit with other gorillas, all the chimps would sit with chimps.

It's why attractive people don't have to work as hard in school.

With all the polls and opinions posts, with newspapers more opinion than news so that we no longer know one from the other....

Never did seem right to me. S'pose Curley jumps a big guy an' licks him. Ever'body says what a game guy Curley is. And s'pose he does the same thing and gets licked. Then ever'body says the big guy oughtta pick somebody his own size, and maybe they gang up on the big guy. Seems like Curley ain't givin' nobody a chance.

A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway.

Though old himself, he disliked old men.

The only way you can do anything of value is to have the effort come out of non-doing and to let go of caring whether it will be of use or not. Otherwise, self-involvement and greediness can sneak in and distort your relationship to the work, or the work itself, so that it is off in some way, biased, impure, and ultimately not completely satisfying, even if it is good.

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

Al Jazeera is demonized by the United States, yet in Egypt my father would be watching it.

Since these early days, I have seen and have experienced many types of discrimination and all of them were rooted in the fear of people that were different than the majority.

Everyone has their own view of life, unfortunately it tends to be based on what they don't know instead of what they do.

There are two sides to every story.

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Self-interest implicit in not being wrong in our pre-judgment limits the time we shall remember it and encourages us to believe we never indulged in it.

anything with a whiff of redneck or white trash upsets me so much that I hope never to be close to any of its components.

Being attractive matters everywhere—getting jobs, getting laid, and yes, getting acquitted by a jury of your peers. No one can resist a pretty face. As long as it's not too pretty. Back

The human animal only sees what it wants to see.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Because everyone knows liberals have never been wrong about anything. You can ask them. Anytime.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.