Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old bias quotes, bias sayings, and bias proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.William J. Clinton
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Biases and blind spots exist in big data as much as they do in individual perceptions and experiences. Yet there is a problematic belief that bigger data is always better data and that correlation is as good as causation.Kate Crawford
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Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.Tom Brokaw
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People will sometimes put each other in boxes and have biases toward one another because of what they look like or where they come from or who they are. But ultimately, it's up to us to decide who we are.Rich Moore
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Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.Hippocrates
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It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias.Criss Jami
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Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.Elihu Root
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There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.Sonia Sotomayo
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The theory of cultural bias is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.Mary Douglas
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Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.Miroslav Volf
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In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.Criss Jami
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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.Robertson Davies
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The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.Jim Hightower
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It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to search for prejudices among the beliefs and values we hold.Peter Singer
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One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to let the harmful biases dictate our behavior.Abhijit Naskar
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Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time, and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one another; for that most men were bad.Diogenes Laertius
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Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For our health and happiness, we must critically evaluate our labels and stories by their effects.Michael J. Cohen
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We tend to accept information that confirms our prior beliefs and ignore or discredit information that does not. This confirmation bias settles over our eyes like distorting spectacles for everything we look at.Kyle Hill
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We all have cultural bias, racial bias. One of the difficult things around this subject matter is to deny that we have places we go to subconsciously, and unless you consciously decide that that's wrong and you've got to do something about it, especially if you're in a position of power, it won't change.David Oyelowo
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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.Benjamin Haydon
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All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we want.Noreena Hertz
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The human brain always concocts biases to aid in the construction of a coherent mental life, exclusively suitable for an individual's personal needs.Abhijit Naskar
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Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds habits and novelty.Jean De La Bruyere
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Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.Charles Curtis
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We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.Anita Hill
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Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.Judith Light
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Prejudice is sinful. All blood flows red. And the most harmful and foolish kind of prejudice is prejudice against yourself. Every woman is your sister, and every woman needs her sisters. So try to give other women the courtesy of your compassion, respect, and forgiveness. Love yourself despite and because of your flaws.Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man; it was not reasoned into him and cannot be reasoned out.
Sydney Smith
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Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often needed but seldom minded.Chesterfield
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A man's prejudice is mental, a woman's temperamental.Evan Esar
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The man who does not think as we do is apt to be prejudiced.Evan Esar
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Many a man makes mistake of developing his opinions in the dark room of prejudice.Evan Esar
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Prejudice is merely a lazy man's substitute for lazy thinking.Evan Esar
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The only person who is unbiased is one who has the same bias we have.Evan Esar
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I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.Garrett M. Graff
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Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds.Steven Mason
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The way to heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.Jonathan Edwards
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By recognizing the negativity effect and overriding our innate responses, we can break destructive patterns, think more effectively about the future, and exploit the remarkable benefits of this bias.John Tierney
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Learning how the negativity bias affects you and everyone else, you see the world more realistically--and less fearfully. You can consciously override the impulses that cause crippling insecurities, panic attacks, and phobias.John Tierney
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Wherever you look at human judgements, you are likely to find noise. To improve the quality of our judgements, we need to overcome noise as well as bias.Dolly Chugh
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Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds.
Steven Mason
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The way to heaven ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.Jonathan Edwards
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It is never too late to give up our prejudices.Henry David Thoreau
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Let us have but one end in view the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality or religion.John Comenius
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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities - we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.John Lancaster Spalding
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I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.Mark Twain
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If you judge people you have no time to love them.Mother Teresa
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Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.Nelson DeMille
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.Oscar Wilde
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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.Ralph W. Sockman
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In overcoming prejudices, working together is even more effective than talking together.Ralph W. Sockman
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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.Voltaire
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Prejudices is the child of ignorance.William Hazlitt
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O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.William Penn
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Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.Hebrew Proverb
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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.Marcus Aurelius
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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.William Blake
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