Sayings About Being Biased

#1. What did I know of loving anything, beyond a longing, beyond being biased in one woman's direction.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#2. Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even small gifts make them susceptible to being biased.

Alice Dreger

#3. For though the law of nature be plain and intelligible to all rational creatures; yet men, being biased by their interest, as well as ignorant for want of study of it, are not apt to allow of it as a law binding to them in the application of it to their particular cases.

John Locke

#4. Obama was willing to compromise and Republicans were not. That's not a biased statement. One of my problems with the limitations of journalism is that straightforward descriptions of reality are seen as being biased.

Jonathan Alter

#5. The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.

Thomas Jefferson

#6. A town in Upstate New York is being accused of being biased 'cause they sent out absentee ballots that say 'Barack Osama.' Today they apologized and printed new ballots that say 'Barack Hussein Osama.'

Conan O'Brien

#7. "Being most concerned with God's righteous judgments rather than the biased judgments of mere men, I have been standing...for the cause of Christ".

~ R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#8. I suppose you could present my life as a happy tale if you ended it in the right place.

Fuminori Nakamura

#9. Are you waiting for the approval of someone else before you make your big move?
If you are, chances are they've already made it.

Charles F. Glassman

#10. There is no deep ongoing fellowship with a superior being without total obedience to him.

Francis Chan

#11. Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.

Julie Burchill

#12. One of the cleverest and most insidious twists in the whole sorry tale is the way women are double bound by a gender-biased definition of professionalism and the threat of being labeled "whining.

Laura Bates

#13. Children only come through you, you don't create them. It is a privilege that they have happened through you. Enjoy the privilege; don't think of it as an authority. Just enjoy the privilege that another life chose to come through you into this world.

Jaggi Vasudev

#14. The people who are constantly striving to apply skepticism to everything in their lives, the ones who actually care enough about truth and [care to try to] avoid being wrong, and biased, and prejudiced, and clueless; those are the people we need, and need to be.

Matt Dillahunty

#15. If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.

Al Gore

#16. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed.

John Green

#17. Now Leroux, what think you
Of this twist to the story?

E.A. Bucchianeri

#18. Is it being said too often how much we in the West have suffered because of the long wars between Islam and Christianity, leaving us biased and with gaps in our information? I think not.

Doris Lessing

#19. I think I developed a culture of healthy skepticism of claims of certainty on any side of the aisle. A sort of boldness in using economics no matter where it leads you in political circles, you know, rather than worrying about being left-wing or right-wing or biased or this or that.

David Plotz

#20. Making the absolute best of ourselves is not an easy task. It is a pleasurable pursuit ... but it requires patience, persistence, and perseverance.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#21. Immigration law's already settled. That's why we have people known as illegal immigrants, because the law is very clear. They're not being called illegal immigrants because people are biased and prejudiced.

Rush Limbaugh

#22. There was no meaning in it, not then and now now, but you can't write that, can you?

Richard Flanagan

#23. When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.

John Milton

#24. I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.

Barney Frank

#25. Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

Philip G. Zimbardo

#26. Being in love can change almost anything: from your expectations and limitations to your very life plans. It's a completely unpredictable force. And how it operates within any particular relationship is a total mystery to anyone outside of that ...

Zack Love

#27. Basically, whenever someone says they're wrong, conservatives too often fall back on claims that those who disagree with them are biased and thus worthy of being ignored, a convenient position that allows them to avoid debating uncomfortable criticisms.

Kurt Eichenwald

#28. My dad used to flush my mother's head down the toilet. I was so screwed up.

Jessica Hahn

#29. Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Scott Adams

#30. The higher the thoughts the greater the deeds.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#31. The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting.

Sherman Alexie

#32. Because Fox News is allegedly biased in favor of conservatives, critics whine like children whose lunch money got snatched. Conservatives have been pummeled for decades. Now that Fox News and conservative talk radio give people alternatives, critics squeal as if being sodomized.

Larry Elder

#33. Meryl [Stripe]spoke out about the low percentage of female critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Why are there 760 male critics and just 168 women? You are immediately [biased] on what kind of films you are being told to go see. What are you told are good films? Male films.

Catherine Hardwicke

#34. No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.

T. E. Hulme

#35. People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

Desmond Tutu