Attitude Quote by Bertrand Russell

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

— Michael Crichton

We leap to conclusions and remember those conclusions as fact. We react on our own prejudices but don't always recognize them as such.

— Ruth Ware

“we tend to use different criteria to evaluate propositions or conclusions we desire, and those we abhor. For propositions we want to believe, we…

— Thomas Gilovich

“A second way in which our motives influence the kind of evidence we entertain involves whose opinions, expert or otherwise, we consult. We can…

— Thomas Gilovich

“Develop a prejudice; find evidence to support it and you’d have made yourself a logically evaluated, arguable opinion.”

— Rajendra Punde

To believe something strongly when it is clearly hard to define and prove, and has not been proven, is to be prejudiced.

— Simon Ramo

The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us…

— Jons Jacob Berzelius

“Believing a given proposition is a matter of believing that it faithfully represents some state of the world, and this fact yields some immediate…

— Sam Harris

“We have to judge all evidence with the same amount of scrutiny. We want truth, not confirmation of whatever our preference is.”

— Lewis N. Roe

A mind unwilling to believe or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist on taking…

— F. C. S. Schiller

A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.

— Gordon W. Allport

Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so…

— Chauncey Wright