Biased Quotes

• Man does not see reality as it is, but only as he perceives it, and his perception may be mistaken or biased.

  Rudolf Dreikurs

  Men, Reality, Perception

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• Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.

  George Soros

  Views, Always Wrong

  George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.14, John Wiley & Sons

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• Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

  George W. Norris

  Sympathy, Men, Prejudice

  George W. Norris (1945). “Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris”, p.195, U of Nebraska Press

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• It's not really a question of who is biased, but which bias is the correct bias with which to be biased!

  Jonathan Sarfati

  Evolution, Bias

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• Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Reading, Prejudice, Literature

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• Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

  Charles Curtis

  Attitude, Hands, Bias And Prejudice

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• Stereotypes are the mind's shorthand for dealing with complexities. They have two aspects: they are much blunter than reality; they are shaped to fit a man's preferences or prejudgments. Thus two principles are involved: differentiation or its lack, and biased preferential perception.

  Robert E Lane

  Reality, Men, Two

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• The voice of the intelligence is soft and weak, said Freud. It is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is hissed away by hate, and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Hate, Anger, Ignorance

  The Progressive, October 1955.

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• 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 past-, present- or future-oriented.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Time, Powerful, Past

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• Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

  William J. Clinton

  Healing, Bipolar, Helpful

  "10 Male Celebrities Who Are Smashing Mental Health Stereotypes" by Lindsay Holmes, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2016.

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• People continually ask me, "Why does the media do what it does? Why are they so obviously self-destructive? Why are they so obviously predictable? Why is the media so obviously biased? Do they not see how other people see?" No, they don't. But then again, they don't care, folks.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Self, Media, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Opposites, Two, Mind

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• [on the voice of the intelligence] It is drowned out by the roar of fear.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Fear, Voice, Ignored

  The Progressive, October 1955.

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• When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

  Irvine Welsh

  Music, Song, Writing

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• I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.

  Barney Frank

  Religious, People, Prejudice

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• Good managers have a bias for action.

  Tom Peters

  Prejudice, Action, Management

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• The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

  Al Franken

  Money, Media, America

  "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them". Book by Al Franken, September 2003.

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• Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

  Indira Gandhi

  Acting, Small Steps, Prejudice

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• Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.

  Susan Cain

  People, Achievement, Humanity

  "Introverts Run the World - Quietly". edition.cnn.com. March 18, 2012.

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• 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 flows. It can be manipulated. It changes according to a person's circumstances.

  George Packer

  Thinking, Ebb And Flow, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Susan is just great. I know I'm biased, but she's a great actress.

  Tim Robbins

  Prejudice, Actresses, Knows

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• Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.

  Albert Ellis

  Emotion, Kind, Certain

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  I want to inspire people to really open up their minds and not be one-sided or biased or hypocritical.

  ASAP Rocky

  People, Inspire, Mind

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. January 7, 2013.

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• We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether good or bad - amazing breakthroughs, such as a new gadget that gets released, or catastrophic failures, like a plane crash.

  Steven Johnson

  Media, Focus, Gadgets

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• I am biased to my show as a whole but it is still very entertaining.

  Rob Mariano

  Prejudice, Shows, Entertaining

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