Quotes About Bias

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

I have been blessed by having, and I admittedly am biased, some of the smartest, hardest-working, and good people in my administration that I think any president has ever had.

We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.

Well, evil to some is always good to others.

It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.

You don't have to be a professional to express an experienced opinion. Often times, the professionals are silent...or biased...

What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

History is written by the winners.

The historian amputates reality.

History is neither written nor made without love or hate.

Liberals in blue states just think that they are on the right side of history, and anybody that disagrees with them has to be a troglodyte or a neanderthal.

History is written by the victors.

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.

Any kind of history you read is basically the winning side telling you the others were bad.

History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.

History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side.

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant