Biased Perception Quotes

The media is a like any other group of people. Their universe is all that matters.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Politics is irrational. Politics is about human beings with their frailties and perversions and distortions or perception, who prioritise things according to their conviction.

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained and impure.

In an ideological, polarized political environment, people see the reality that they want to see.

But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.

We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest.

I would be with a bunch of Kennedy fans watching the debate, and their comment would be, 'He's really slaughtering Nixon.' Then we would all go to another apartment, and the Nixon fans would say, 'How do you like the shellacking he gave Kennedy?'

If I were a liberal Democrat, people would say I'm the super genius of all time. The super genius of all time. If you're a conservative Republican, you've got to fight for your life. It's really an amazing thing.

Interviewers actively fool themselves, finding ways to learn from interviews even if there's actually nothing there to learn from.

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.

What a man wishes, he will believe.

Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life.

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt

People see what they want to see when they need to.

The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.

If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?

No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an individual we adamantly resist changing our opinion, even when somebody offers proof of his decency, because it's vital to have myths about both the gods and devils in our lives.

A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.

I think it's true that people seemed to have had a kind of tunnel vision in my regard, and that has been something that I've been having to fight against for a long time.