Quotes About Bias

History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

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.

It is not a sin to introduce a personal bias that can be recognized and discounted. The sin in historical composition is the organization of the story in such a way that bias cannot be recognized.

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten, I find that really problematic.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

History is the propaganda of the victors.

The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery.

The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.

History is not written in the interests of morality.

I think a lot of the history we've read up to this point, some of it is just off. It's written with the same prejudice that certain networks have when they report the news of the day.

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

Focus groups are a waste of time, filled with people telling you what you want to hear so they can go home.

North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social.

Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.

I believe anybody who tells you he is unbiased is a liar. Being human gives you bias, and you can't avoid that. The best you can ever hope to be is fair.

The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it.