Quotes About Bias

Facts are much more malleable than prejudices.

Human beings tend to be unable to estimate how biased they are.

Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.

Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.

if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.

I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

We only listen to what we want to hear.

Why do people only understand what they want to......instead of what they could or should understand?

The world is as fair as you perceive it to be.

Every barber thinks everybody needs a haircut.

Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics.

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

Patriotism corrupts history.

(A)nything not acting as a propaganda arm for the Democrats or the Leftist agenda is considered conservative these days.

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

If you read angry political blogs, substitute Obama with my daddy and you'll usually learn a lot about the author.

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

But revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left.

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

What the media is doing is, again, just going after the Democrats and the Republicans and making it about politics instead of principles.