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.
What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.
There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias.
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.
Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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.
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment.
Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.
It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.
Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.
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.
A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.
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.
The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.
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.
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.
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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.
Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.
It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.
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
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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.
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