4 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Bias

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quotes on bias

5. Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

61. Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

74. What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

77. The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.