Henri Poincare Quotes

I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experience. No one can eliminate prejudices—just recognize them.

Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are. Most of us see through the eyes of our fears and our limiting beliefs and our false assumptions.

Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.

No man can see his own prejudices.

Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.... Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.

It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.

Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making.

You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

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.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

If we are honest with ourselves, we have to admit that sometimes our assumptions and preconceived notions are wrong, and therefore, our interpretation of events is incorrect. This causes us to overreact, to take things personally, or to judge people unfairly.

When people talk about someone you have preconceived judgments.

Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice.

Far from being a loathsome aberration that ought to be purged from our behavior, it turns out that stereotypes are essential life tools, are accurate much more often than not.

All know the influence of interest on the mind of man, and how unconsciously his judgement is warped by that influence.

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show the darkness but to put out our own eyes.