Quotes About Confirmation

Anything thrice affirmed is true.

There seems to be no end to the satisfaction one gets in having one's opinions confirmed.

Confirmation bias isn't an occasional bug in our human operating system. It is the operating system. We are designed by evolution to see new information as supporting our existing opinions, so long as it doesn't stop us from procreating. Evolution doesn't care if you understand your reality. It only cares that you reproduce.

about finding evidence of the past) And when you get that confirmation, it would instantly become the past itself. So in effect, you would be using the past, which does not exist, to confirm something else from the past. And if you repeat the process a thousand times, with a thousand different pieces of evidence, together they would still be nothing but impressions of the past supporting other impressions of the past.

Confirmation bias looks exactly like knowledge gained from doing your own research.

Cuando busque la verdad, su mejor opción es buscar una confirmación al menos en dos de las dimensiones que he incluido en la lista.

In this sort of situation, all it takes is one idiot to suggest witchcraft as the problem, and from that point on, confirmation bias does the rest. Once your brain filter is set to look for witches, all evidence fits into the "witch" frame.

Since string theorists have failed to propose any way to confirm string theory experimentally, string theory should be retired

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative

but all I did was pray to the Lord and ask for some guidance and direction in connection with the decision that I'd reached. A more perfect thing to have done would have been to counsel with him relative to the decision and get a spiritual confirmation that the conclusion, which I by my agency and faculties had arrived at, was the right one. ("Agency or Inspiration?" New Era, January 1975, p. 40)

With respect to ceremonies, there is some appearance of a change having taken place; but it was only the use of them that was abolished, for their meaning was more fully confirmed. The coming of Christ has taken nothing away even from ceremonies, but, on the contrary, confirms them by exhibiting the truth of shadow.

For the truth of God is sufficiently solid and certain in itself, and can receive no better confirmation from any other quarter than from itself; but our faith being slender and weak, unless it be supported on every side, and sustained by every assistance, immediately shakes, fluctuates, totters, and falls.

For the more we are afflicted by adversities, the more surely our fellowship with Christ is confirmed!

You already knew the right thing to do. You just needed someone to confirm it for you.

Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied.

A heartfelt expression for love appears through the eye, and a conscious expression of love appears by the tongue; love becomes life when the character confirms and proves its fulfillment.

Everything depends on only consisting of a three-letter word; Yes.

Hann benti líka á hvað það er skrýtið að það þurfi vitnisburð annarra til að staðfesta stærsta atburð eigin lífs, fæðinguna.

When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.

One must always be thinking," Isabel told Ralph. "I am not sure it's not a greater happiness to be powerless." And Ralph replied: "For weak people I have no doubt it's a greater happiness.'' It was a confirmation of my own idea of strength—of my determination to be strong.

Our appointment and confirmation process has, in other words, evolved into a mini-plebiscite on the meaning of the Constitution whenever a new justice is to be seated.