Bias Quotes

And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the ...

Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what George Orwell called the 'offic...

The author found participants in a study able to come up with more reasons to support their position...

Experiment participants asked to pick which politician looked more confident in a photograph picked ...

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

When theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughl...

It is not a matter of whether one is biased or not. It is really a question of which bias is the bes...

There is no such thing as an innocent reading, we must ask what reading we are guilty of.

In my opinion, defining intelligence is much like defining beauty, and I don’t mean that it’s in the...

Someone told me recently that a commentator or some sort had said, "The United States is in spiritua...

... Whenever the man of science introduces his personal value judgment, a full understanding of the ...

Weber,... argues that... personal bias should not preclude the scientific ascertainment of objective...

Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.

Holding one's self responsible is a critical feature in stigma and in the generation of shame since ...

After seeing a movie that dramatizes nuclear war, they worried more about nuclear war; indeed, they ...

Stories people told themselves were biased by the availability of the material used to construct the...

You need to be so careful when there is one simple diagnosis that instantly pops into your mind that...

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the ...

It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiassed opinion; and ...

The media are desperately afraid of being accused of bias. And that's partly because there's a whole...

It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed them...

We all see only that which we are trained to see.

Equal time is not necessary when dealing with evil. Nazis do not merit equal or fair treatment.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Someti...

An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that explains chaotic events and collective misfortun...

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice whe...

I am drawn to a fourth alternative, natural teleology, or teleological bias, as an account of the ex...

Once a person has made some sort of stable, symbolic connection between two things, the connection w...

A psychopathy on Anarres was rational behavior on Urras.

DONNA: "She said she knew it in her heart. Do you know how many times I've been wrong about things I...

Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe. Compared to the America...

This book is dedicated to Israel's constructive and nuanced critics, whose rational voices are too o...

The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of...

Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary.

There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long af...

Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, a...

It was hard and sour, but, as Poushkin said, the illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten t...

In short, the man displayed a constant and insurmountable impulse to wrap himself in a covering, to ...

We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which...

I expected, as I approached the corporate world, to enter a brisk, logical, nonsense-free zone, almo...

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired...

A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of...

Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect w...

Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.

I pick up a copy of Newsweek on the plane and immediately notice how biased, slanted, and opinionate...

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find ...

Those who make objectivity a religion are liars. they are scared of human pain. They dont want to be...

Illusion of transparency: We always know what we mean by our words, and so we expect others to know ...

How would we flood village and city with our information? The people must learn how well I govern th...

When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bri...

...[T]he whole undertaking of philosophical inquiry requires a prior understanding of the conceptual...

The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree ...

We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by sugge...

When critics surrender to the prevailing orthodoxy, the author says they adopt the rhetoric of an oc...

Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.

Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.

One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we eit...

Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of...

A new problem appears: devices that optimize the performance of the human body for the purpose of pr...

... In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scie...