Orson Scott Card Quotes on Bias
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Why are they so stupid? Not to know the truth when they hear it? This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.
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Don't call the speaker of truth a liar.
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Now I have second-guess all my future decisions wondering how much my choices are influenced by the fact that this kid really pisses me off
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We all had a better idea. We all knew that you were wrong. We knew it from the beginning
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After discussions like this, the boys would turn around and talk about how girls weren't reasonable, they were emotional, you couldn't even have an intelligent conversation with them - but it was the boys who fled from the evidence and constantly shifted their arguments to fit what they wanted to believe. And it was [she] who was ruthlessly realistic, refusing to deny her own feelings or the facts that she observed around her. And refusing to deny that she reached her conclusions first, because of her inmost desires, and only afterward constructed the arguments to support them. Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons
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What you call intellectual honesty I call self-deception
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A liar sees lies, even when they aren't there. Just as a hypocrite sees hypocrites whenever he runs across good people. Can't stand to think that anyone might really be what you only pretend to be
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You only got away with that because you're a woman
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Are they blind? They don't know how to watch things. They don't know how to see anything but what the expect to see
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He may be white, but he's still a man. Men always think they know the right thing, and so they don't listen
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I think you underestimate the ability of some men to bear the truth No you underestimate the ability of some men to believe that when they are told what they want to hear, it must be true
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Sometimes people aren't what they seem I know that... No you don't... Because you are exactly what you seem, and so you always assume that other people are, too
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She's not ignorant, she's just stupider than I ever imagined