3 Eric Hoffer Quotes on Bias

Eric Hoffer quotes on bias

52. To find the cause of our ills in something outside ourselves, something specific that can be spotted and eliminated, is a diagnosis that cannot fail to appeal. To say that the cause of our troubles is not in us but in the Jews, and pass immediately to the extermination of the Jews, is a prescription likely to find a wide acceptance.

71. We usually see only the things we are looking for - so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.

119. I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.