Maimonides Quotes

The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the proofs against it.

I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.

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.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. The moment we want to disbelieve anything we have previously believed we suddenly discover not only that there is a mass of evidence against it but that this evidence was starting us in the face all the time.

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.

Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.

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.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.

There is, however, no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

The collection of prejudices which is called political philosophy is useful provided that it is not called philosophy.

There are two kinds of people in the world: the conscious and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it representative of a whole class.

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

Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices.

… people reject the validity of a scientific source because its conclusion contradicted their deeply held views.

People will assume what a record is going to be like and they are loath to even give it a listen.

The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.

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