Bias is the lens in which we see everything around us, which if unchecked, can be detrimental to ourselves and those around us. Because of this, I have sought some of the most revealing quotes about bias to help people better understand this topic. 🧐
Below, you will find a wide range of insightful, wise, inspiring, eye-opening, and motivational quotes about bias that is sure to put things into perspective.
Side note: If I have missed any iconic or famous quotes about biases, please comment down below and I will be sure to add them to this list! 😃
73+ Eye-Opening Quotes About Bias!
1. “Sport can transcend bias.” – Elana Meyers
2. “Love does not wear hatred and bias.” – Ehsan Sehgal
3. “Own your biases, don’t be owned by them.” – Abhijit Naskar
4. “Good managers have a bias for action.” – Tom Peters
5. “Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.” – Daniel Kahneman
6. “Reality has a well-known liberal bias.” – Stephen Colbert
7. “I don’t believe it’s humanly possible to be free of bias.” – Robin DiAngelo
8. “It is a well-known fact that reality has a liberal bias.” – Stephen Colbert
9. “We all see only that which we are trained to see.” – Robert Anton Wilson
10. “We see truth through the eyes of our bias.” – Charles F Glassman
11. “Even the best documentary has somebody’s bias.” – Stephen McFeely
12. “Prejudice wears a variety of hats, none of them becoming.” – Kevin Ansbro
13. “Media bias is one thing. Rejection of reality is another.” – Chuck Todd
14. “Customer needs may vary, but their bias for quality never does.” – J. Willard Marriott
15. “Bias and impartiality are in the eye of the beholder.” – Samuel Johnson
16. “Love your friends as if they would someday hate you.” – Unknown
17. “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” – Robertson Davies
18. “Do not require standards for others you do not yourself obey.” – C.A.A. Savastano
19. “Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie.” – Criss Jami
20. “Evidence and expertise have a well-known liberal bias.” – Paul Krugman
Famous Quotes About Bias
21. “I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
22. “Ever since I learned about confirmation bias I’ve started seeing it everywhere.” – Jon Ronson
23. “It’s not at all hard to understand a person; it’s only hard to listen without bias.” – Criss Jami
24. “Design can overcome our most deeply rooted stranger-danger bias.” – Joe Gebbia
25. “Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.” – Bertrand Russell
26. “Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.” – Benjamin Haydon
27. “I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.” – Rand Paul
28. “The crowning blessing of life-to is born with a bias to some pursuit.” – Evelyn Beatrice Hall
29. “A man without a bias cannot write interesting history if indeed such a man exists.” – Bertrand Russell
30. “Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.” – Denis Waitley
31. “Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds, habits, and novelty.” – Jean de la Bruyere
32. “The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.” – Susan Cain
33. “Almost every culture has a cognitive bias for the tough guy, the alpha, the winner.” – Rick Wilson
34. “We think that there really is racial bias in determining who people want to date.” – Sam Yagan
35. “I can promise to be upright, but not to be without bias.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
36. “There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one’s bias.” – Phyllis Rose
37. “Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.” – Tom Brokaw
38. “Knowing that one may be subject to bias is one thing; being able to correct it is another.” – Jon Elster
Must-Know Quotes About Bias
39. “It’s not at all hard to understand a person; it’s only hard to listen without bias.” – Criss Jami
40. “Recognizing that you have a bias and blind spots are essential to personal growth.” – Mikaela Kiner
41. “Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.” – William J. Clinton
42. “The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.” – Jon Stewart
43. “We find comfort among those who agree with us growth among those who don’t.” – Frank A. Clark
44. “There’s no bias when it comes to facts, and there’s no bias when it comes to decency.” – Jake Tapper
45. “Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.” – Charles Curtis
46. “Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.” – Miroslav Volf
47. “Two quite opposite qualities equally bias the habits and novelty of our minds.” – Jean De La Bruyere
48. “It really felt like a tidal wave of bias washed over our country and we’re still soaked in it.” – Paula Broadwell
49. “Telling a story inherently has a bias because of the perspective and the way the story is told.” – Stephen McFeely
50. “There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.” – Elon Musk
51. “There is no such thing as an innocent reading, we must ask what reading we are guilty of.” – Louis Althusser
52. “If you don’t allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.” – Charlie Munger
53. “It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.” – Simone de Beauvoir
54. “No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause because his interest would certainly bias his judgment.” – James Madison
55. “I’m suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias.” – Andrew Cohen
56. “To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage.” – James Randi
57. “The most effective adaptation of racism over time is the idea that racism is conscious bias held by mean people.” – Robin DiAngelo
58. “It’s human nature to make the complex manageable and determine things that fit your conclusions. That’s bias.” – Richard Burr
59. “Criticisms of mainstream media bias have been a staple of the conservative movement and talk radio from the beginning.” – Charlie Sykes
60. “The number of things we do not like about someone skyrockets as soon as we find out that they do not like us.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
61. “Fake news and rumors thrive online because few verify what’s real and always bias towards content that reinforces their own biases.” – Ryan Higa
62. “Although self-reported endorsement of sexist attitudes didn’t predict hiring bias, self-reported objectivity in decision making did.” – Cordelia Fine
63. “The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.” – Jim Hightower
64. “Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.” – Ta-Nehisi Coates
65. “Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.” – Barbara Bush
66. “Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.” – Hippocrates
67. “All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we want.” – Noreena Hertz
68. “True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people.” – George Whitefield
69. “People have actual bias against there being some kind of popularity for political films, and when they get acknowledged, it helps keep the conversation going.” – Jay Roach
70. “Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.” – Elihu Root
71. “Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world.” – George Steiner
72. “People will sometimes put each other in boxes and have biases toward one another because of what they look like or where they come from or who they are. But ultimately, it’s up to us to decide who we are.” – Rich Moore
73. “Biases and blind spots exist in big data as much as they do in individual perceptions and experiences. Yet there is a problematic belief that bigger data is always better data and that correlation is as good as causation.” – Kate Crawford