Quotes About Bias

And I repeat that we might all become startlingly sane, or at least much less stupid, if we tried, even occasionally, to look dispassionately and without prejudice at precisely those events which do not seem to fit our own favorite reality-tunnel or tunnels.

The vegetarian does not "see" (experience) meat on a rack in the butcher shop the same way the meat-eater sees it. The racist does not see a member of another race as, say, that person's parents do. More generally, as the Poet tells us: "The Fool sees not the same tree that the Wise Man sees.

In San Francisco I read a review of John Huston's recent movie, Victory, which described it as exciting. In the Irish Tribune yesterday I read another review which described it as dull. Is the excitement or dullness in the movie, or was it in the nervous systems of the reviewers?

Discrimination is difficult, because in its worst form, it is not overt. It is subtle.

People believed what made them comfortable. What fit with their preconceptions of how the world worked.

If you are observing someone you naturally dislike, or who reminds you of someone unpleasant in your past, you will tend to see almost any cue as unfriendly or hostile. You will do the opposite for people you like. In these exercises you must strive to subtract your personal preferences and prejudices about people.

Regie Gibson said, "Our problem as Americans is we actually hate history. . . . What we love is nostalgia. We love to remember things exactly the way they didn't happen. History itself is often an indictment. And people? We hate to be indicted.

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.

Like a compass facing north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

Every person defines reality in his own way. And every person figures that anybody who doesn't agree with him has got to be irrational.

People need something to hate to reinforce their own identities.

... if you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him or advising him about clothes.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian.

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody hates the Jews.

I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

Religion has become the blind spot of American journalism.

Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.

Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.

It is not a matter of whether one is biased or not. It is really a question of which bias is the best bias with which to be biased.