Biased View Quotes

“It is pointless to believe what you see,
if you only see what you believe.
—“The Admiral,” from The Requiem of Gods Vol. XI, translated by Chevalle”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites

“it's disconcerting how many people billing themselves as 'experts in the occult' have bugger-all qualifications in the subject. Instead, they have a list of qualifications in studies on the occult THROUGH THE BIASED VIEWS of their own religions... This is NOT the same thing.”
― Christina Engela

“People with passionate convictions tend to see the world through the lens of their passion - whether psychological, spiritual, or economic - and interpret everything they hear according to whether or not it harmonises with their own one-note samba”
― Hugh Mackay, The Kindness Revolution: How we can restore hope, rebuild trust and inspire optimism

“When we take biases as common sense, that is the end of all common sense.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“To shame someone out of writing is a modern book burning—an abortion of ideas, killed in the womb of enlightenment.”
― Scott McCarthy