Beholder Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beholder Bias Eye Eye of the beholder Impartiality Perspective
Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent.… — Charles Curtis Copy Share Image
“What makes the bias particularly pernicious is that we all recognize this bias in others but not in ourselves.” — Richard H. Thaler Copy Share Image
“The more one is aware of political bias the more one can be independent of it & the more one claims to be impartial… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Knowing that one may be subject to bias is one thing; being able to correct it is another. — Jon Elster Copy Share Image
No one is ever bias-free, but some people let their biases influence their actions more than others. — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
I think that bias is not a fixed thing. It's not as though some people are biased and others are not. It ebbs and… — George Packer Copy Share Image
All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
“Nowadays people seem to imagine that impartiality means readiness to treat lies and truth the same, to hold white as bad as black and… — Orde Charles Wingate Copy Share Image
“Biased people are seen as prejudicial and unfair, arrogant and overly confident of their position. Nobody wants to be identified as someone who is biased or opinionated. But make no mistake about it, all of us have a point of view; all of us hold opinions and ideas that color the way we see the world. Anyone who tells you… — J. Warner Wallace Copy Share
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In images,... beauty was the agency that caused visual pleasure in the beholder; and any theory of images that was not grounded in the… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human.… — Seth Godin Copy Share
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I find it's often in huge tits, too. — Brad Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder. — John Zimmerman Copy Share Image
The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
