Quotes About Bias

Humans see what they want to see.

I may be biased, but I think jackals are cute and cuddly, even if they were known for digging up graves in Ancient Egypt.

people can be creul,people can be mean, what they say about us is not true it makes it there opinion, and it doesnt mean thats how the rest of the world see's it.

Can we ever see the truth when desire blinds us? Or do we call it the truth because it is what we wish to see?

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

It really is brilliant news that historians can just never get things right.

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

Mom says crap like that comes from people who've accomplished so little in life that they feel the need to lift themselves above someone, anyone. So they pick skin color or religion or sexual orientation and say, Well, I might not be much, but at least I'm not a... I'd look at those guys, and see the truth of her words.

The greater their ignorance, the stronger their opinions. Georgetown

The American papers, which had been available in Vladivostok, were more honest than the British. Lev

The President of the United States, if you remove his blackness, then just ask the question, is he a good President or is he a bad President for the United States? Just remove the blackness and make that decision.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.

New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.

The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that's incorrect.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

Siempre es que, realizadas por otros, nuestras mismas acciones parecen más sucias

Johannes Meintjes… is one of the more articulate South Africans of his generation. A prolific painter, he is also a fluent author in both English and Afrikaans. With unresting curiosity about South African national and regional history, he seems blessedly free from political or racial bias, and when he writes of nations or persons in conflict is alert to what is good or bad on both sides.

The stumbling block isn't the certainty effect per se. It's the way that smart people are influenced by mere words, by the way the choices are framed.

How like a fawning publican he looks!I hate him for he is a Christian.

That smooth-fac'd gentleman, tickling Commodity,Commodity, the bias of the world.

In our tribal stories, we have heard of a Woman's Council, which was headed by a very powerful woman, perhaps the Ghigau . This oral history is frequently discredited by Western historians as "merely myth." I have always found their repudiation fascinating. An entire body of knowledge can be dismissed because it was not written, while material written by obviously biased men is readily accepted as reality.

One of the tricks of the west is to use or create images, they create images of a person who doesn't go along with their views and then they make certain that this image is distasteful, and then anything that that person has to say from thereon, from thereon in, is rejected.