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)