John McCarthy Quotes

I am biased to my show as a whole but it is still very entertaining.

Personality is lower than partiality.

I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine.

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

It's no secret that I didn't love 'An Officer And A Gentleman' then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent.

No one is a good judge in his own cause.

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

Politics can cloud objectivity.

You can't judge people for favouring somebody. That happens in every field.

Is it possible to be totally partial?

There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.

Empathy zooms you in on an individual and, as a result, it's narrow, it's innumerate, it's racist, it's very biased.

When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.

Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.

No matter what I say, honestly, people would only judge me the way they want to.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even than the profession of novelist.

We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.