Bias Quotes

• Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

  M. Scott Peck

  Profound, Prejudice, Want

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• What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Sad, Spiritual

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• There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias.

  Phyllis Rose

  Acceptance, Judging, Neutrality

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• We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.

  T. S. Eliot

  Passion, Emotional, Justice

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• Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.

  Tom Brokaw

  Eye, Facts, Beholder

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• Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Mind, Prejudice, Serious

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• A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias.
  The small man is biased and can see a question only from one side.

  Confucius

  Men, Gentleman, Sides

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment.

  James Madison

  Men, Judging, Causes

  James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay (2016). “The Federalist Papers: The Making of the US Constitution”, p.43, Arcturus Publishing

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• Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Listening, Pay

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• It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Mind, Impossible, Problem

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Perspective, Beholder

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• There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

  Charles Curtis

  Attitude, Hands, Bias And Prejudice

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• A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.

  Bertrand Russell

  Writing, Men, History

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.465, Routledge

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• Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

  Alexander Pope

  Failure, Pride, Men

  Alexander Pope (1808). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.54

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• The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.

  Jon Stewart

  Media, Laziness, Conflict

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. June 19, 2011.

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• Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Tolerance, Trying, Prejudice

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• Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Genius, Compass

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• Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

  Barbara Bush

  Women, People, Parent

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• If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced. Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge. A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. We tend to grow emotional when a prejudice is threatened with contradiction. Thus the difference between ordinary prejudgments and prejudice is that one can discuss and rectify a prejudgment without emotional resistance.

  Gordon Allport

  Simple, Emotional, Light

  "The Nature of Prejudice" by Gordon Allport, (p. 9), 1954.

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

  William J. Clinton

  Healing, Bipolar, Helpful

  "10 Male Celebrities Who Are Smashing Mental Health Stereotypes" by Lindsay Holmes, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2016.

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• Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Opposites, Two, Mind

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• It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.

  Stephen Colbert

  Reality, Facts, Well Known

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• Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue

  Clifford Geertz

  Thinking, Issues, Feminist

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• My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

  Abdul Kalam

  Views, Imagination, Optimism

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• The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.

  Curt Weldon

  Media, Want, Facts

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