Observation/biases

Famous quotes containing the words observation and/or biases:

“Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.”
—Harriet Martineau (1802–1876)

“A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.”
—Whitney Balliet (b. 1926)