Quotes about Bias

History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.

Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.

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

if you believe Jesus's main purpose is to provide a means of personal, individual salvation, it is all too easy to think that he doesn't have anything to do with human history—with war or injustice, or destruction of nature, or anything that contradicts our egos' desires or our cultural biases.

New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.

This story... blasts to pieces our biases and labels with a declaration that God is on everyone's side, extending grace and compassion to everyone, especially those we have most strongly decided are not on God's side.

It is not a matter of whether one is biased or not. It is really a question of which bias is the best bias with which to be biased.