Bias Quotes
Joanna Russ
And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms to express what the forms were never intended to express (and may very well operate to conceal).
3942Daniel Willey
The world is a place of constant change. If we are open and ready to consider everything while remaining unbiased, we will be ready to accept these changes and utilize them to improve our lives.
3514 Thomas Mann
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
4131 E.L. Doctorow
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
4384 Steven Pinker
A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.
3969 Robert Gately
Bias rules our minds and causes us to overlook the obvious. From 'Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather', by Robert Gately
3942 Brandon Sanderson
Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.
3621 Christopher Knight
Science is about recognizing patterns. [...] Everything depends on the ground rules of the observer: if someone refuses to look at obvious patterns because they consider a pattern should not be there, then they will see nothing but the reflection of their own prejudices.
1423 Elyn R. Saks
Mental illness" is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclosing their condition to their friends and confidants-and certainly to their employers.
3158 Glenn Close
The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.
1368 Ruby Wax
1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I've had both.
3384 Ruby Wax
This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.
3035 Rodney Ulyate
Political centrism ≠ neutrality. Being a centrist doesn't make you unbiased; it biases you in favour of the centre.
3401 Reza Aslan
Paul may be an excellent source for those interested in the early formation of Christianity, but he is a poor guide for uncovering the historical Jesus.
2139 Michael J. Cohen
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.
3836 Cyril Ponnamperuma
Scientists are human - they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.
3331 Sherwood Smith
Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water.
3260 Elyn R. Saks
No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness.
3657 Max McKeown
As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.
2228 DaShanne Stokes
Even with the Boy Scouts admitting openly gay youths, its exclusion of LGBT adults teaches our children by example what the organization really thinks about them - and what they should think about themselves.
4655 DaShanne Stokes
It’s time for the Boy Scouts to open its membership to LGBT adults once and for all. Only then can they claim to have anything to teach our children.
3006 Sally Graham
I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago.
2438 Frank Clark
We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.
4583 DaShanne Stokes
Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?
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