Quotes about Bias
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
— Winston Churchill
Another weakness found in altogether too many people is the habit of measuring everything, and everyone, by their own impressions and beliefs.
— Napoleon Hill
One of the most malevolent characteristics of racist thought is that it never produces new knowledge.
— Toni Morrison
There is no way to answer the systemic distortions of the press.
— Toni Morrison
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
— William Hazlitt
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
— William Hazlitt
Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
— Paulo Coelho
It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.
— Oscar Wilde
I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.
— Samuel Johnson
There is so much bias for self-love, so much recklessness about truth in general, and so much of even a sincere faithlessness of narration, that no partial account of anything is to be trusted.
— Kate Summerscale
There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
— Stephen Covey