6 Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes on Bias

Arthur Schopenhauer quotes on bias

40. The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

45. Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

56. Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.

74. Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

76. Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

116. There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.