Racism is dead only to those who’ve closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.

Live with a bias toward action. Ironically, this will teach you patience. When you take action each day, you learn the value of accumulating small improvements over time. You understand how daily habits compound. Be...

Silence is for fools. Communication is for leaders. Justice is for those brave enough to not stand another moment dealing with people that feel the solution to any problem is through cold indifference because of...

Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most...

Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.

Facts and values are entangled in science. It’s not because scientists are biased, not because they are partial or influenced by other kinds of interests, but because of a commitment to reason, consistency, coherence, plausibility...

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...

As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

I am drawn to a fourth alternative, natural teleology, or teleological bias, as an account of the existence of the biological possibilities on which natural selection can operate. I believe that teleology is a naturalistic...

You can never make someone like something they don’t like, but you can always help them to better understand it.

I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more pleasure in his perfect creatures, and cheers them on like a...

This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

Human beings tend to be unable to estimate how biased they are.

from: The Portrayal of Child Sexual Assault in Introductory Psychology Textbooks – Elizabeth J. Letourneau, Tonya C. LewisOne of the central questions surrounding the debate on memories of CSA is how often false or repressed...

I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change what the sane will not. This is the paradox of philosophers—trying to understand...

We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong, we are influenced—and sometimes strongly—by our personal bias; and we...

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the...

It was after a Frontline television documentary screened in the US in 1995 that the Freyds’ public profile as aggrieved parents provoked another rupture within the Freyd family, when William Freyd made public his own...

The media are desperately afraid of being accused of bias. And that’s partly because there’s a whole machine out there, an organized attempt to accuse them of bias whenever they say anything that the Right...

I’m convinced that most men don’t know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man’s atrocities, but wouldn’t dream of imprisoning a mother for...

It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I’ve had both.

right” because I can predict crazy because I have been trained in the unpredictable nature of consistent craziness because I am crazy.

The old bitterness came up in him and he did not have time to cogitate and push it down.

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.

The most disgusting human trait is bias, because it typically leads to propaganda, hate and violence.

Although the terminology implies scientific endorsement, false memory syndrome is not currently an accepted diagnostic label by the APA and is not included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.; American...

As a matter of fact, when it comes to seeing, men display two tendencies: they see what they wish to see, what is useful to them, what is agreeable. The second is the tendency toward...

I think by laying it out for the viewer I’m avoiding the issue of bias.

Look at the language. If a scientist delivers the simple, unconditional, absolutely certain statements that politicians and journalists want, he is talking as an activist, not a scientist.

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.

Equal time is not necessary when dealing with evil. Nazis do not merit equal or fair treatment.

There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.

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.

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.

Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.

(Everyone, I guess, sees their position as the neutral one and everyone else’s position as biassed. I wonder why 177 minutes of the Today programme is completely secular; you feel horribly excluded by 3 minutes...

Privilege is not knowing that you’re hurting others and not listening when they tell you.

It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.

Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its own interest first and twists every argument, word, even fact...

It appears, from all this, that our eyes are uncertain. Two persons look at the same clock and there is a difference of two or three minutes in their reading of the time. One has...

A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have...

Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.

One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldview—not because it is...

He knew more about the death of Lula Landry than he had ever meant or wanted to know; the same would be true of virtually any sentient being in Britain. Bombarded with the story, you...

In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.

The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to it animosity or two its affection, either of which is sufficient...