Bias Quotes

Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.

I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.

The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.

The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias

Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.

If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in being overlooked for certain opportunities.

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

If politicians get money to spend and don't have to be responsible for taxation, then of course that will bias their attitude toward more spending as opposed to cutting back on spending.

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

All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.

[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.

The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.

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

The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.

That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization.

I believe anybody who tells you he is unbiased is a liar. Being human gives you bias, and you can't avoid that. The best you can ever hope to be is fair.

We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.

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

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

I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.

I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.

Good managers have a bias for action.

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere.

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.

But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It's so unfair, because there is a bias that takes place.

Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users.

Yeah, Silver and his math are jokes, because math has a liberal bias. After all, math is the reason Mitt Romney's tax plan doesn't add up.

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.

When African-American police officers involved in a police action shooting involving an African-American, why would Hillary Clinton accuse that African-American police officer of implicit bias?

Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key delivery of services because of the bias and the bigotry of the administration?

You can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

I do find that the mainstream media oftentimes is what I would consider off base or has a bias.

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

The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.

There's this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can't be in pain or they can't have rough lives or be deep or interesting.

Everything is in the way the material is composed.

That's awesome. There's no bias in the media.

It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so.

There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl.

Man's want of original righteousness and of holy affections toward God, and the corruption of his moral nature and his bias toward evil is called depravity

I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.

I can't promise my child a life without bias - we're all biased - but I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.