"That is why Bias jested with those who……" — Michel de Montaigne
"That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: "Shut up," he said, "so that they do not realize that you are here with me."
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Michel de Montaigne
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649 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against…
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Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them.
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a…
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Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal…
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care…
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many…
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It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole,…
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what…
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I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
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Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole,…
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Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are…
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The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.
— Susan Cain
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I do find that the mainstream media oftentimes is what I would consider off base or has a bias.
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In other words, they decided right from the start that there's no God, and they're setting out to try to…
— Ken Ham
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We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what…
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Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the…
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When I go out and race, I'm not trying to beat opponents, I'm trying to beat what I have done…
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There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias.
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