Biased Perspectives Quotes

Study men, not historians.

Man tends to treat all of his opinions as principles.

False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera.

Quite frankly, anything you have you will be told is detrimental or is an asset by whomever you run into, and in the end, you can't listen to anybody about anything.

I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.

I have never been greatly enamored of literary men in general, and in particular I have come to the unfortunate conclusion that they are a class of individuals with the most dangerous biases and hidden motives.

But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.