Bias Quotes

If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.

Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that the American soul is 'open-minded' and unbiased; on the contrary, it is ridden with countless taboos of which people are sometimes not even aware.

Change, like healing, takes time.

"What did you do?" I scream. "You die, I die too."

Some things are hard to let go of.

I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias

Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.

Some writers may toy with the fancy of a ‘Christ-myth,’ but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence. The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar. It is not historians who propagate the ‘Christ-myth’ theories.

It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless.

If you don't allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.

I only came for Cake" -Tobias Eaton, Divergent

Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.

"Natural" is a very dangerous word to use about sexuality ... Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since they rely on the changing standards of superstition, religion, Christianity and gender bias to define themselves. Americans, in particular, exhibit very childish reactions to sexual practices that are new to them, much like little kids who are offered a vegetable they haven't seen before: "That's disgusting!" "But darling, you haven't even tried it!" "I don't care, I hate it, I hate it!

I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.

Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it.

But anyone who thinks themselves genuinely unbiased is bound to be taken in.

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

Bias and prejudice make me angry...more than anything.

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family. And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior

Susan is just great. I know I'm biased, but she's a great actress.

The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias and prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education and family.

I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar.