Biased Quotes

94 quotes by 91 authors

I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gender, place of origin, and age blacked out.… — Eric Ries
Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side. — Marilyn vos Savant
People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised. — Desmond Tutu
I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased,… — Saul Williams
Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively… — Philip Zimbardo
Digital media are biased toward replication and storage. Our digital photos practically upload and post themselves on Facebook, and our most deleted e-mails tend to… — Douglas Rushkoff
I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for… — George Orwell
(on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account of the events… — Bertrand Russell
Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or… — Jonathan Swift
I always love it whenever Rose delivers one of her witty one-linersâ€”particularly when itâ€™s a completely serious situation. The contrast always amuses me, but then,… — Richelle Mead
Well, it kind of hurts when the kind of words you write And kind of turn themselves into knives And don't mind my nerve you… — Jason Mraz
Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are… — Tom Robbins
I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because… — John Green
Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I donâ€™t… — Umberto Eco
If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, youâ€™ll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical… — Jonathan Haidt
What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in… — C.S. Lewis
I may be biased, but I think jackals are cute and cuddly, even if they were known for digging up graves in Ancient Egypt. — Rick Riordan
Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even small… — Alice Dreger
Suppose you like someone very much. Then, by a familiar halo effect, you will also be prone to believe many good things about that person… — Daniel Kahneman
Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even small… — Alice Dreger

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