Best Bias Thoughts
192 Bias quotes by 169 unique authors
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When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and…
— Pema Chodron
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Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.
— Bertrand Russell
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Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect…
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias
— John Derbyshire
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What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and…
— Carter G. Woodson
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The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms their thinking about…
— Parker J. Palmer
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To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking we…
— Marilynne Robinson
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The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.
— Jon Stewart
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Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the…
— Erin Morgenstern
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It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side.
— John Betjeman
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A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.
— Bertrand Russell
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It is not a sin to introduce a personal bias that can be recognized and discounted. The sin in historical composition is the organization of…
— Herbert Butterfield
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I think the press has an interest in communicating to its viewers or readers, and their viewers or readers drive profit for those news organizations,…
— Mark McKinnon
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My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in being…
— Heather Bresch
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I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
— Robert Darnton
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For Mitt Romney, the complex question of anti-Mormon bias boils down to the practical matter of how he can make it go away. Facing a…
— Noah Feldman
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All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we…
— Noreena Hertz
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The elements that create glamour are not specific styles - bias-cut gowns or lacquered furniture - but more general qualities: grace, mystery, transcendence. To the…
— Virginia Postrel
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The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it.…
— Barry Larkin
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When it comes to police officers, I have concerns about the training that they receive. This whole notion of implicit bias, looking at people and…
— Eric Holder
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The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative, driven by fear…
— Michael Ignatieff
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Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.
— Tim Wise
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When the culture of police departments is sometimes infused with bias or preconceived ideas against certain groups, there needs to be reform and retraining throughout.…
— Al Sharpton
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Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
— Stephen Colbert
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