Bias Quotes · Page 13

“No man ought certainly to be a judge in his own cause, or in any cause in respect to which he has…

— Alexander Hamilton

No one is ever bias-free, but some people let their biases influence their actions more than others.

— Maria Konnikova

People with disability have always been viewed as second-class citizens compared to non-disabled people. It's just an unconscious bias that people have.

— Dylan Alcott

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

— Clarence Darrow

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance…

— Mitt Romney

Yeah, Silver and his math are jokes, because math has a liberal bias. After all, math is the reason Mitt Romney's tax…

— Stephen Colbert

Kurt [Cobain ]was a feminist. A lot of the bashing against Courtney [Love] I think has to deal with gender bias and…

— Brett Morgen

“Confirmation bias is our innate tendency to pay more attention to information that confirms our beliefs.[”

— Cindy Alvarez

There is a rampant tendency in any industry where someone is trying to sell something with a bunch of data, where they…

— Burt Rutan

Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is…

— Bryan Stevenson

“You need to be so careful when there is one simple diagnosis that instantly pops into your mind that beautifully explains everything…

— Michael Lewis

When I saw how Russia was involved and pushing for Trump, I contacted the FBI. But at the time, they were confident…

— Christopher Wylie

In reading the biographies of very successful men and women, one theme frequently surfaces: such people have a strong bias for action.…

— Steve Pavlina

Of course you want to drive that out of yourself because you want to be wise, not foolish. You also have to…

— Charlie Munger

I'm all news, all the time. Full power, tall tower. I want to break in when news breaks out. That's my agenda.…

— Dan Rather

Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’…

— George Orwell

“responsibility bias occurs because we have more information about our own contributions than others’.”

— Adam M. Grant

Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.

— Steven Weinberg

As a comedian and satirist you have to be neutral, because everyone's fair game. Once you show bias, you lose that.

— Bill Bailey

We should always be suspicious when machine-learning systems are described as free from bias if it's been trained on human-generated data. Our…

— Kate Crawford

“The most disgusting human trait is bias, because it typically leads to propaganda, hate and violence.”

— Lori Lifsey

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

— Indira Gandhi

“Truth’s nakedness is not concerned with whom it strikes - painfully, or with pleasure; responding appropriately to its ingenuous temperament, however, rewards…

— T.F. Hodge

“Saying it's hard being straight is like complaining to the poor that it's difficult being wealthy.”

— DaShanne Stokes

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

— Madeleine M. Kunin

I think that survivorship bias, the survivorship bias is something I'm very acutely familiar with because of investing.

— Tim Ferriss

I suspect unconscious bias has been far more of a factor for President Obama than overt racism and will also be a…

— Nicholas Kristof

In other words, they decided right from the start that there's no God, and they're setting out to try to prove that…

— Ken Ham

I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very…

— Gore Vidal

The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic…

— Jim Hightower

“The human tendency toward confirmatory thinking - all of us are bias to seek information that fits what we already believe.”

— Valerie Tarico

A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias. The small man is biased and can see a question only…

— Confucius

There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it…

— H. G. Wells

I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Fake news and rumors thrive online because few verify what's real and always bias towards content that reinforces their own biases.

— Ryan Higa

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma,…

— Linus Pauling

Congress needs to get over their political bias with each other and work toward saving children's lives.

— David Hogg

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

— Hippocrates

I mean, we all carry some form of that bias, right? I mean, it might be based on age, it might be…

— Maya Wiley

“Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.”

— Shannon L. Alder