Bias Quote by M. Scott Peck

How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons

— Pietro Metastasio

No human beings, regardless of who they might be, want to look directly at their own shortcomings.

— Tatsuhiko Takimoto

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me…

— Blaise Pascal

We live in a society where we basically live and strive on what people think about us. We’re more visual people so what we…

— Mike Tyson

Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison…

— Stephen Jay Gould

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it…

— Clifford Geertz

When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and…

— James A. Forbes

I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject…

— Alfred de Vigny

Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own mirrors. We…

— Thomas Sowell

To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself.

— Stephen Covey