Quotes About Validation

Anyone looking for confirmation will find enough of it to deceive himself—and no doubt his peers.*

Being reviewed or assessed by others matters if and only if one is subjected to the judgment of future—not just present—others. And recall that, a free person does not need to win arguments—just win.*2

The Web is an unhealthy place for someone hungry for attention.

the (stated) purpose of science is to get to the truth, not to give you a feeling of organization or make you feel better. We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

I can find confirmation for just about anything, the

a series of corroborative facts is not necessarily evidence. Seeing

disconfirming instances are far more powerful in establishing truth. Yet

As much as it is ingrained in our habits and conventional wisdom, confirmation can be a dangerous error.

It is true that 1,000 days cannot prove you right, but one day can prove you to be wrong.

yet he gets little or no credit for it.

Sanallinen uhka on aidon voimattomuuden sertifikaatti.

the tendency to look at what confirms our knowledge, not our ignorance)

He felt justified to show that "he fared well relative to the industry.

Does the book industry suffer from the classical "expert problem" with the buildup of rules of thumb that do not have empirical validity? More than half a million readers later I am discovering that books are not written for book editors.

crave some form of attention

But this clearly left me to seek ego fulfillment elsewhere.

Once your mind is inhabited with a certain view of the world, you will tend to only consider instances proving you to be right. Paradoxically, the more information you have, the more justified you will feel in your views.

You take past instances that corroborate your theories and you treat them as evidence.

they remained fragile to the emotional toll from the compliments they did not get

My son, I am very disappointed in you," he said. "I never hear anything wrong said about you. You have proven yourself incapable of generating envy.

people look for books that support their mental program.

I can be loved by my family, my mate, and my friends, and yet not love myself. I can be admired by my associates and yet regard myself as worthless.

A mind that distrusts itself cannot inspire the best in the minds of others. Neither can leaders inspire the best in others if their primary need, arising from their insecurities, is to prove themselves right and others wrong.

Love is not felt to be real when it is always tied to performance, tied to living up to Mother's or Father's expectations