- “Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.” – Lord Barnett
- “We all have biases, even biases we don’t know we have.” – Vernā Myers
- “The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion draws all things else to support and agree with it.” – Francis Bacon
- “It is never too late to give up your prejudices.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Prejudices are what fools use for reason.” – Voltaire
- “Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices – just recognize them.” – Edward R. Murrow
- “To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.” – Theodore H. White
- “Bias is a disproportionate weight in favor of or against an idea or thing, usually in a way that is closed-minded, prejudicial, or unfair.” – Warren Buffett
- “If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.” – John F. Kennedy
- “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” – Isaac Asimov
- “Do not let your biases prevent you from making the effort to understand the perspectives of others.” – Dalai Lama
- “All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.” – Marshall McLuhan
- “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” – Henri Bergson
- “Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.” – Maya Angelou
- “He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.” – Samuel Smiles
- “The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.” – George Orwell
- “The propensity to dwell on failure and mistakes, and to magnify the flaws of others while ignoring their strengths, is to a large extent a cognitive bias.” – Daniel Kahneman
- “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.” – Charles Darwin
- “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anaïs Nin
- “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.” – Forest Whitaker
- “Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.” – Toni Morrison
- “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
- “The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.” – Rajneesh
- “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle
- “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” – Helen Keller
- “We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- “Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.” – E.B. White
- “To understand is to perceive patterns.” – Isaiah Berlin
- “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.” – Harper Lee
- “There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.” – Alfred Korzybski
- “We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.” – Virginia Satir
- “Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.” – Charlotte Bronte
- “The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.” – John Keats
- “The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy.” – W.I.B. Beveridge
- “Knowledge of other people’s beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.” – Kjell Magne Bondevik
- “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” – Audre Lorde
- “Prejudice is a learned trait. You’re not born prejudiced; you’re taught it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
- “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” – Charles Bukowski
- “If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.” – Norman Douglas
- “An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.” – Mark Twain
- “I think it’s the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.” – Elizabeth Edwards
- “We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.” – Taylor Swift
- “We are all biased, but we can grow and learn to recognize our biases.” – Jennifer Eberhardt
- “There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Prejudice is the child of ignorance.” – William Hazlitt
- “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy
- “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” – Mother Teresa
- “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” – Steve Biko
- “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch
- “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.” – Paulo Coelho
- “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “The human mind is a complex and sometimes devious instrument.” – Carl Sagan
- “The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
- “The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge.” – Daniel J. Boorstin
- “If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.” – Lyndon Johnson
- “Difference is of the essence of humanity.” – John Hume
- “What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.” – C.S. Lewis
- “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglass
- “Judgments prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.” – Wayne Dyer
- “Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.” – Bryan Stevenson
- “Bias makes you believe that everyone else is the epitome of your preconceptions.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.” – Dale Carnegie
- “Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.” – Malcolm Forbes
- “If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.” – Benedict Spinoza
- “Labeling is no substitute for understanding.” – David Bohm
- “The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.” – Albert Einstein
- “We see the world not as it is, but as we are—or, as we are conditioned to see it.” – Stephen R. Covey
- “Bias is a curtain that blinds us, but curiosity can be the knife that cuts it away.” – Jim Kwik
- “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” – J.K. Rowling
- “To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.” – Margaret Bourke-White
- “The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.” – Frank Zappa
- “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
- “Difference is not a deficiency.” – Audre Lorde
- “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “We are trapped in the history we receive and pass on.” – Thomas King