Bias Quotes - Page 6

• I can promise to be upright, but not to be without bias.
  [Ger., Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen; unparteiisch zu sein aber nicht.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Promise, I Can

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• Journalism classes teach us that one must extract oneself from the story in order to report without bias, but often we need to be in the story in order to understand, to connect, to help the audience identify or else it has no heart; it could be a robot telling the story, for all anyone cares.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Heart, Order, Class

  Cecelia Ahern (2013). “One Hundred Names”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• Japanese management practices succeed simply because they are good management practices. This success has little to do with cultural factors. And the lack of cultural bias means that these practices can be - and are - just as successfully employed elsewhere.

  Masaaki Imai

  Mean, Practice, Good Man

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• A lot of those old ideas are dying with the people who created them, and there's this new generation of filmmaker that's saying, "We're in this together, these are issues that we all deal with, let's just present issues to screen without bias and figure out what the audience has to say about them."

  Nate Parker

  Ideas, Issues, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Ignorance, Dark, Simple

  Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.252, Ballantine Books

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• Every writer, by the way he uses the language, reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacities, his bias....Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious, the coy, and the cute. Do not be tempted by a twenty-dollar word when there is a ten-center handy, ready and able.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Cute, Twenties, Dollars

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• Evidence and expertise have a well-known liberal bias.

  Paul Krugman

  Well Known, Evidence, Wells

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• With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Country, Color, America

  Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017). “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy”, p.144, One World

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• Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world.

  George Steiner

  Innovation, Tragedy, World

  "The Death of Tragedy". Book by George Steiner, 1961.

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• Of course you want to drive that out of yourself because you want to be wise, not foolish. You also have to allow for the self-serving bias of everybody else because most people are not going to remove it all that successfully, the human condition being what it is. If you don't allow for self-serving bias in your conduct, again you're a fool.

  Charlie Munger

  Wise, Self, People

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• When a reporter files a piece about Republican that slams Republican or law enforcement or hypes up climate change, there's no attempt to expose their bias, to look at their background. And then when you find out later that they usually have a bias.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Law, Hype, Climate

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I would say that introverts make some of the best international philosophers. The less common attribute of the introverted lifestyle - a close societal connection, as such a connection disappears or changes in relevance as the currents of the winds change - leaves too much room for one's own cultural bias. Instead, introverts tend to turn inward, the laboratory of being and all its forms. This is the most accurate study of the individual human being, which is in turn, rather than those affected by cultural limitations, the most universal reflection of human understanding and human behavior.

  Criss Jami

  Reflection, Wind, Understanding

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• Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will betray.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Wall, Memories

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.68, University of Missouri Press

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• Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow. ... Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias.

  Pauli Murray

  Sex, Black, Crow

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• Once I appealed to distinguish words "gay" and "homosexual"... "Gayship" is a political homosexualism, a sort of left-wing ideology based on a bias against traditional lifestyle... Homosexualism is a sexual preference.

  Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz

  Gay, Wings, Political

  "Niech Homo Bedzie Homo". Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz's blog (translated), August 31, 2007.

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• If you don't allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.

  Charlie Munger

  Self, Fool, Ifs

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• There are those who believe a liberal or a conservative bias permeates the media. I don't. The operative press bias is one that favors conflict, not ideology, and it is lashed by a market-driven bias to boost ratings or circulation with more wow stories, more sizzle.

  Ken Auletta

  Believe, Media, Stories

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• The four BIAs in the area support it. Operational benefits include accessibility and a place for police officers to come and go when they're working. Everyone's clamoring for more police presence.

  Julian Fantino

  Support, Police, Benefits

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• The bias against the show is purely elitist. We're all like the people on the show - the difference is that some of us speak better, or were born richer. There's nothing that happens on my show that rich people don't experience.

  Jerry Springer

  Differences, People, Speak

  Interview with Rebecca Hardy, Daily Mail 'Weekend' magazine, June 27, 2009.

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• An important thing to remember about the press is there is no ideological bias.

  Jon Meacham

  Important, Remember, Ideological

  "My Father, My President" by Doro Bush, (p. 218), October 2006.

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• You must have the confidence to override people with more credentials than you whose cognition is impaired by incentive-caused bias or some similar psychological force that is obviously present. But there are also cases where you have to recognize that you have no wisdom to add - and that your best course is to trust some expert.

  Charlie Munger

  People, Experts, Add

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• Kurt [Cobain ]was a feminist. A lot of the bashing against Courtney [Love] I think has to deal with gender bias and the media, and I think that he liked that she was taking the attention off of him.

  Brett Morgen

  Thinking, Gender Bias, Media

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Photographs freed from the scientific bias can, and indeed usually do, have double meanings, implied meanings, unintended meanings, can hint and insinuate, and may even mean the opposite of what they apparently mean.

  Peter C Bunnell

  Mean, Opposites, Hints

  Peter C. Bunnell (2006). “Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography”, Aperture

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• There is a rampant tendency in any industry where someone is trying to sell something with a bunch of data, where they cherry pick a little bit... bias a little bit. This becomes quite easy when there is an enormous amount of data to cherry pick from.

  Burt Rutan

  Data, Trying, Littles

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• What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.

  Fatou Bensouda

  Powerful, People, Focus

  "Fatou Bensouda: “We Are Not Against Africa”". Interview with Mercy Eze, newafricanmagazine.com. September 11, 2012.

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