Quotes About Confirmation

Is it you? Yes.

There's a point where anecdotal evidence becomes truth

We naturally look for evidence that confirms our beliefs. We then experience what we believe, even when there is evidence to suggest otherwise.d

Over the next year, Fuchs passed detailed written information to the Soviets about the problems and advantages of the implosion-type bomb design over the gun method. He was unaware that the Soviets were getting confirmation of his information from another Los Alamos resident.

Winning the treble was confirmation for me that joining Bayern rather than moving abroad was the right decision.

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.

Once the human mind has favoured certain views, it pulls everything else into agreement with and support for them. Should they be outweighed by more powerful countervailing considerations, it either fails to notice these, or scorns them, or makes fine distinctions in order to neutralize and so reject them.

All approaches at a higher level are suspect until confirmed at the molecular level.

One day they'll wake up and realize that we were right about everything all along.

Power is all around us, continuously confirmed and contested, and perceived with great accuracy. But social scientists, politicians, and even laypeople treat it like a hot potato. We prefer to cover up underlying motives. Anyone who, like Machiavelli, breaks the spell by calling it like it is, risks his reputation. No one wants to be called "Machiavellian," even though most of us are.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.

Lo que llamamos resignación no es más que una confirmación de la desesperación.

Confirmations, corroborations rather than disillusionment. At eighteen I was as much of a philosopher as I ever will be.

There are three kinds of yeses. There's commitment, confirmation, and counterfeit. People are most used to giving the counterfeit yes because they've been trapped by the confirmation yes so many times. So the way you master no is understanding what really happens when somebody says 'no.' When yes is commitment, no is protection.

A diary means yes indeed.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.

Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.

As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does.

Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors.

I happen to think the Paris accord, the Paris treaty, or the Paris Agreement, if you will, should have been treated as a treaty, should have gone through Senate confirmation.

You are the proof of everything

When we fight with the truth and stand in it to the end, then God Himself comes and confirms His Word, His righteousness and His truth