Germaine Greer Quotes

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

Everyone's got an opinion, and not all of them are good ones.

People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

I hate perception. There's far too much of it in football

Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.

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

No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.

People project their own dreams, fantasies, and prejudices onto my life. So people are either fans, or jealous, or disagree. Everybody marches to a different drummer.

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

Evil is that which one believes of others.

Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.

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

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

There once was an umpire whose vision Was cause for abuse and derision He remarked in surprise, 'Why pick on my eyes? It's my heart that dictates my decision.'

I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.

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.

Anybody who pretends to be objective isn't realistic.

You see what you expect to see, Severus.

After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?