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Quotes About Confirmation

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes God asks us to take a step before he confirms the course.
~ Todd Stocker
Develop an affirmation today, and start getting instant confirmation in all works of like.
~ Richmond Akhigbe
Fact remains ---Roush could be a fine justice. A lot better than some of the idiots on the court now, men and women who only got there because their lives have been so damned boring they could survive the confirmation process. - Senator Josiah Keyes
~ William Bernhardt
Confirmation bias is the tendency to see things in your environment that confirm your preconceived ideas and not see things that conflict with what you already believe.
~ William Landay
Confirmation bias is the tendency to see things in your environment that confirm your preconceived ideas and not see things that conflict with what you already believe. I think maybe something like that happens with kids. You see what you want to see.
~ William Landay
Availability bias prevents us from setting our prior beliefs appropriately, whereas confirmation bias stops us from updating them for new information.
~ David Franklin
But few of us really stop to ask ourselves what new information might change our minds, especially on questions of politics and identity. We fall into the trap of confirmation bias, in which rather than updating our prior beliefs, we mould new information into a form that will confirm them.
~ David Franklin
No matter how sensible-seeming or wild an idea, the smart thinker asks: Does it work? When put to the test, can its predictions be confirmed? Subjected to such scrutiny, crazy-sounding ideas sometimes find support.
~ David G. Myers
The Tablets describe the nature and colour of Neptune and Uranus in ways that have only been confirmed in the last few years! What's more, the modern 'experts' did not expect those planets to look as they did, yet the Sumerians knew thousands of years BC what our 'advanced' science has only just discovered.
~ David Icke
Persistent, internal inklings matched by external confirmation is often the way God directs believers into His will.
~ Priscilla Shirer
When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of God's promises have strong confirmation in Christ.
~ John Calvin
We should not seek to confirm God's will by the absence of adversity.
~ Alistair Begg
Godly character flows out of devotion to God and practically confirms the reality of that devotion.
~ Jerry Bridges
I can confirm, although I am not certain, that we have very good reason to believe that tomorrow is Monday.
~ Joseph Ole Lenku
Donald [Driver] is a good guy, a righteous guy. I have no beef with him. But I have multiple sources on this; people not connected with one another who verified it.
~ Jeff Pearlman
I think my independence was a big help to getting Judges Roberts and Alito confirmed, and I think that's recognized.
~ Arlen Specter
Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.
~ Van Wyck Brooks
I joke that if she [Debbie Wasserman Schultz] could find a 3 a.m. slot in the Home Shopping Network, she would grab that. So those emails only confirm what we knew.
~ Jonathan Tasini
I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we've passed the audition.
~ John Lennon
Relaxed Empiricism -- I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened.
~ Bill Bailey
You will need to verify your identity with a sacrifice.""Didn't you ever hear of retina scans? Maybe fingerprints? Something less invasive?
~ J.T. Bock, A Surefire Way
The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination.
~ David Berlinski
9. Adult children of alcoholics constantly seek approval
~ Janet Geringer Woititz