Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Bias
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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.
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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.