165 Quotes About Biases

The Anti-Stereotype SonnetBlack is not evil.White is not trash.Brown is not illegal.Muslims don’t crash.Women ain't weak.Jews ain't greedy.Men ain't playboys.Queer ain't sickly.Hijab is not oppression.Hourglass ain't beauty.Faith is not delusion.Atheists don't lack morality.Assumptions only reveal shallowness.Beyond stereotypes lies humaneness.

Instincts are effective tools of survival, but when it comes to finding true answers to real questions, your rational thinking is the person to do the job. That is why seeking truth requires keeping your innate instincts and biases in check.

There is nothing innate, immutable or inevitable about boys or girls doing particularly well or badly in different subjects. Girls in Shanghai outperform western boys in math, the same boys that outshine the girls in the US. The variable factor is the educational system, the society and the parents.

A police officer oblivious to their errors and shortcomings is no different from the Gestapo. Such police may be suitable in Nazi Germany, Imperialist Britain, Confederate America or the Amazon jungle, but they have no place in a society of civilized beings.

A lack of emotional engagement in the affair affirms higher credibility.

There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

We analyse our data with our own biases

We mix what we want with what we need.

He kept himself in line with popular opinion, which meant popular prejudice.