Quotes about Bias

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

It's easy to demonize from a distance.

Western culture generally, as well as the Christian subculture specifically, has had an unwarranted tendency to think that abstract ideas and facts are the only valid type of knowledge that we possess. Literature challenges that bias, and so does the Bible. The Bible is not a theological outline with proof texts attached. It is an anthology of literature.

All of us judge by sight and not by knowledge.

Most blacks want school vouchers, but most liberals vehemently oppose them. Why? Because what is good for teachers' unions is of more importance to the Left than what is good for blacks. Who, then, is racist? By their own admission, and by the policies they pursue, the answer is the people who call themselves progressive.

I often wonder whether a frumpy old woman can ever be quite fair in her estimate of a young and lovely one.

Love is blind; hate is deaf.

Statistics can be made to prove anything - even the truth.

All persons act from beliefs they are conditioned not to question, from a set of deeply seated prejudices. Therefore, whoever presumes to judge must be asked: How are you affronted? And this judge must begin there to question inwardly as well as outwardly. — The Question from Ritual of the Courtarena Guide to Servants of the Box

Many histories are largely worthless because prejudiced, written to please one powerful group or another.

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.