Bias Quotes

“Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.”

“A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.”

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”

“For the most part we do not first see, and then define, we define first and then see.”

“If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories.”

“Quick condemnation of any person or group is the mark of a bias-polluted mind.”

“You can't be a homer. You just can't.”

“There is an unconscious bias against Hindus in the Western media and even in the Indian English media.”

“An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.”

“We get a lot of our news from the mainstream media, which is obviously biased.”

“No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.”

“We only see in a child what we are looking for, not what is really there.”

“That's one of the central problems of history, isn't it, sir? The question of subjective versus objective interpretation...”

“We are always already biased in our thinking and knowing, but this bias is not a hindrance to understanding but rather its condition.”

“The elite domination of the media and the marginalization of dissidents that results from the operation of these filters occurs so naturally that media news people, frequently operating with complete integrity and goodwill, are able to convince themselves that they choose and interpret the news 'objectively' and on the basis of professional news values.”

“There is no objectivity. Anyone who says they are objective is either a liar or a fool.”

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”

“Psychology has nothing to say about what women are really like, what they need and what they want, essentially because psychology does not know.”

“When we are expecting to see a certain kind of behavior, we are more likely to see it.”

“If any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality.”