165 Quotes About Biases

Prejudice conquered is world conquered.

Sonnet of ProgressWhere the nation ends,There the world begins.Where the self fades,There community begins.Where luxury withers,There equality begins.Where biases shrink,There truth begins.Where pride dies,There growth begins.Where rigidity ends,There life begins.Such true life is forever revered.Prejudice conquered is world conquered.

Replacing one tyrannical paradigm with another is not progress, it's only recurring regress.

Learning to be aware of what you unconsciously know may depend on a line of focused effort and specialized knowledge and even some measure of aptitude, but actually learning it may be effortless, automatic, and require very little of what we normally think of as intelligence.

Every question was also an opportunity to create an impression that would guide how all subsequent answers to questions got interpreted.

When I was at university, my dorm was in a red light area. Often after class on my way to the dorm, I would sit with those sisters of mine and listen to their stories and struggles for hours - just listening to them pouring their heart out gave me a kind of uncorrupted bliss that couldn't be explained with human words. You don't need to be a practicing physician or psychiatrist to ease the pain of others, listening to them as a human being crossing prejudice is enough.

The fastest way to become ridiculously biased is to collect opinions like berries and ignore facts. However, gathering facts are more useful berries; opinions have a better taste.

In a civilized world even bigots have a voice, but in a bigoted world, the only place where you can find reason and inclusion is prison.

Stereotypes die hard, but they must, otherwise people will.