Quotes About Confirmation

Successes, in other words, are generally seen as confirmations of one's underlying strategy, whereas failures tend to be thought of only as failures of outcome, not as failures of strategy.

confirmatory events are in fact much more memorable than non-confirmatory events.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

While being alive is all right for the world's general population, some of us need to get it in writing that this is so.

The modern media, with so many options tailored to particular views, is a huge exercise in confirmation bias. This means that Americans are not just poorly informed, they're misinformed.

Conspiracy theorists manipulate all tangible evidence to fit their explanation, but worse, they will also point to the absence of evidence as even stronger confirmation. After all, what better sign of a really effective conspiracy is there than a complete lack of any trace that the conspiracy exists? Facts, the absence of facts, contradictory facts: everything is proof. Nothing can ever challenge the underlying belief. These

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

If you believe in extrasensory perception, a call from a friend after you have thought about her is a confirmation of your powers. Such an experience feels truly amazing, but remember, the mind is very creative in finding patterns and connections; the mystical experiences that do click are the only ones we will notice and remember, while millions of other possible coincidences are ignored and forgotten.

And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The Constitution doesn't say that. The Constitution doesn't say that that nominee shall have any vote at all. There doesn't have to even be a vote.

Deciding whether to confirm a president's nominee for the highest court in the land is a responsibility I take very seriously.

Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.

Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

PLACE YOUR HAND ON THE SCANNER AT THE HEAD OF YOUR BUNK AND SPEAK YOUR NAME TWICE.

What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.

The genius in you isn't seeking confirmation from others, but quiet space for its ideas to blossom.

like most British viewers, I don't believe anything until the BBC says it's true).

I'd learned that Holtzer Point was a top secret facility in St. Paul, Minnesota. I'd gathered that much already, but it was nice to have it confirmed by a series of websites that appeared to have been composed by middle-school-aged conspiracy theorists with a passion for stupid-looking animated graphics.

Our past is like a footprint. It only confirms we were there. No burden on our future does it bear. Bring the rain, clear the pane of clutter.

The most pleasant words in the English language are: "You are right."

Having formed a hypothesis that something is true about the world, we are more apt to note and file away evidence that helps to confirm that while passing over the evidence around us that would suggest otherwise.

After consulting census books, cemetery records, city directories, and various other documents, he definitively established that the story the dying Carlson told about her background was true in every detail. She was not Belle Gunness.[

I don't believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.

The Bolshevik slogans and ideas on the whole have been confirmed by history; but concretely things have worked out differently; they are more original, more peculiar, more varied than anyone could have expected.

I'd like to say "thank you" on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition.