Bias Quotes
Bias rules our minds and causes us to overlook the obvious. From 'Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather', by Robert Gately
I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago.
As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.
One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.
One editor during the Civil War got a grievous message to meet his brothers corpse, only to find out that the telegraph operator had garbled the message to meet his living brother's CORPS.
Silence might be a shout for the truth. It might be the speech that someday, in its truest, most uncontaminated, unadulterated state, all will be revealed.
When we want to see someone in a certain way, we find a way, but when we don't we have to wake up and see who they truly are and not what our pain or anger chooses to believe.
Paul may be an excellent source for those interested in the early formation of Christianity, but he is a poor guide for uncovering the historical Jesus.
Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.
Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can’t hear it.
In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.
We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are—to most people—not important at all.
Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.
One thing I've found... the road rarely rises up to meet you until you've begun walking.
Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the mirror.
The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony.
Jack and Bobby Kennedy were too young, too attached to real family to transfer affection and loyalty to those that of their blood or region or upbringing.
Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.
There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after he has become their equal.
Data can bear on policy issues, but many of our opinions about policy are grounded in premises about the nature of human life and human society that are beyond the reach of data.
Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people’s experiences as an interpretive lens.
Everything took on the color of blood.
The most disgusting human trait is bias, because it typically leads to propaganda, hate and violence.
The most disgusting human trait is bias because it ends of leading to propaganda, hate and violence.
Scientists are human—they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.
Racism is dead only to those who've closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.
Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.
Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.
You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.
Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people.
DONNA: "She said she knew it in her heart. Do you know how many times I've been wrong about things I knew in my heart?
Given the level of understanding and the fact that they believed already in a set of myths and superstitions, it was the easiest and fastest way to proceed.
My larger point is that since each of us struggles daily with good and bad impulses, we might want to restructure our social institutions in order to make it a little easier to be good.
Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.
People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.
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.
As the honors accrued, creativity diminished.
The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.
One of Lincoln's intimates as a presidential candidate urged him to make no promises and not to part with those kind words which could be interpreted as promises.
Behavior makes sense from the actor's perception or else the actor wouldn't do it. Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, you know, today I'm going to be conforming, mistaken, nasty, and so on.
The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to an outcome.
When critics surrender to the prevailing orthodoxy, the author says they adopt the rhetoric of an occupied country, "one that expects no liberation from liberation.
Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.