Observation/biases

Famous quotes containing the words observation and/or biases:

“Men look on knowledge which they learn—or might learn—from others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their own: in outward objects, they would rather behold their own hogsty than their neighbor’s palace; and in mental ones, would prefer one grain of knowledge gained by their own observation to all the wisdom of a thousand Solomons.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

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