#Bias Quotes

“But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.”

“The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.”

“We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.”

“Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.”

“The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of.”

“Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.”

“Judgment means that you view the world as you are, rather than as it is.”

“He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.”

“I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself”

“Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.”

“Pleasure and revengeHave ears more deaf than adders to the voiceOf any true decision.”

“In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell”

“You don't ever ask a barber whether you need a haircut.”

“We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course.”

“Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.”

“He who seeks truth should be of no country.”

“Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.”

“The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.”

“Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and are the victims at all times of the nearest object. There is even no philosopher who is a philosopher at all times. Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood.”

“My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.”

“But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.”

“Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western imperialists who together destroyed slavery around the world. And if it doesn't fit their vision, it is the same to them as if it never happened.”

“People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.”

“Not only is patriotism disdained, the very basis for pride in one's country and culture is systematically undermined in our educational institutions at all levels. The achievements of western civilization are buried in histories that portray every human sin found here as if they were peculiarities of the west.”

“Media bias in editorials and columns is one thing. Media fraud in reporting 'facts' in news stories is something else. ...The issue is not what various journalists or news organizations' editorial views are. The issue is the transformation of news reporting into ideological spin, along with self-serving taboos and outright fraud.”

“Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that challenges the left vision.”

“The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.”

“The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.”

“Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home. It has neither taste nor choice of place, and all that it requires is room. If the one prepares her food by poisoning it to her palate and her use, the other does the same. Prejudice may be denominated the spider of the mind.”

“And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.”

“An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.”

“A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.”

“Consider data without prejudice.”

“The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.”

“The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.”

“Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.”

“You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.”

“It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless.”

“As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all.”

“Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.”

“It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.”

“The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.”

“That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.”

“Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.”

“Where you stand depends on where you sit.”

“Both Bush as well, as Tony Blair, are undermining an idea which was sponsored by their predecessors. They do not care. Is it because the secretary-general of the United Nations [Ghanaian Kofi Annan] is now a black man? They never did that when secretary-generals were white.”

“Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.”

“A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.”

“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.”

“...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours....All Democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it. None but the Republicans. All the Republicans are insane, but only the Democrats can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.”