Best 53 quotes in «confirmation quotes» category

Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an idea gets into your head, it's probably going to stay there.

Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.

Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.

Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them.

Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.

Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power.

Every day is a surprise. There are confirmations of an interconnectivity and synchronicity which inspire, titillate and confirm the inherent comedy of the universe.

If you go in a confirmation process, you're going to be asked about the embarrassing or stupid things you said. You should have a view.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

I would recommend any American who wants to understand where the government is going in the next four years of George W. Bush presidency to get a copy of her confirmation hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. It's a road map, and it's pretty frightening testimony. Their definition of where democracy should go in the Middle East doesn't include Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan; it only includes Iraq, Iran, and Syria.

At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.

He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.

Once we make our decision, all things will come to us. Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation. They are a response.

Persistent, internal inklings matched by external confirmation is often the way God directs believers into His will.

Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously.

John Boehner will be the new speaker unless, out of habit, he blocks his own confirmation.

The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

The most compelling confirmation of Marx's theory of history is late capitalist society. There is a sense in which this case is becoming truer as time passes.

Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere.

The illustrator is essentially a reporter: his subjects come from the outside, lit by a flash. A subject comes to the classical artist from inside, and when he discovers confirmation of it in the outside world he feels that it has been there all the time.

There is no formula. There are only confirmations to formulas which one has already discovered oneself.

There are cases where examinations are admitted, namely, before the coroner, and before magistrates in cases of felony. That appears to me to go rather in support of the general rule than in destruction of it. Every exception that can be accounted for is so much a confirmation of the rule that it has become a maxim, Exceptio probat regulam.

This is the most important joke I've ever heard. Niels Bohr, the founder of Quantum Physics, had a friend to dinner. As the friend left, he noticed a horseshoe nailed above Bohr's front door. He said to Bohr, accusingly, "Niels, you're a great scientist. You can't believe in superstitions." Bohr answered, "I don't, but apparently it works anyway."As with confirmation bias, we tend to lean toward superstitions that benefit us.

The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.

What the devil is Chocho?' Will whispered. Horace's grin broadened. 'You are. It's what the men call you,' he said. Then he added, 'It's a term of great respect.' Behind them, Halt nodded confirmation. 'Great respect,' he agreed.

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual pleasure as possible into one's mouth more or less continuously. Gratification, instant and lavish, is a birthright

We are happy at the respect others pay our favorites, because we consider it a lively confirmation of our own choice, and as so much homage reflected on ourselves.

A few days before the confirmation service, she told her father—the pastor of the church—that she wasn't sure she could go through with it. She didn't know that she really believed everything she was supposed to believe, and she didn't know that she should proclaim in front of the church that she was ready to believe it forever. "What you promise when you are confirmed," said Julian's father, "is not that you will believe this forever. What you promise when you are confirmed is that that is the story you will wrestle with forever.

Bukan doa orang lain yang membuat anda sukses atau gagal, tapi karena anda telah mengaminkannya, sadar atau tak sadar.

.....And sometimes life sends you places to confirm affirmations..... this journey of mine....

Don't just create a change for yourself, be a centre of change to others.

Confirmations may come in many forms and at any time.

Develop an affirmation today, and start getting instant confirmation in all works of like.

Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie.

Den 4de Regel man kand give Ungdommen, er, intet at troe, uden det er giort beviisligt, og at forkaste alt, hvad som strider mod Menneskets almindelige Sandser... vil det ikke blive saa let at binde dem ugrundede Meeninger paa Ærmene, som andre, hvilke man ikke med saadan foregaaende Lærdom og saadanne Præcautioner haver bevæbnet, og som man seer at antage for Troens Artikle, alt hvad dem af deres Lærere udi de spæde Aar bliver sagt.

If you never try, you'll never know. You are what you manifest.

I was glad to hear that you were to be confirmed.

If you value your words, people will not ask you to make any promises.

I will never know, because I will never be able to be in the position to witness those things. And I don't care to know something I myself cannot confirm. No one should care about this.

She thought of the cake that she was going to make for Solange's confirmation. She and Jeanne d'Arc had agreed on a vanilla cake in the shape of a Christian cross, white on top to convey purity and with a turquoise and white basketweave design piped around the sides to match the confirmation dress, which was white with turquoise ribbons threaded through it. Solange's name would be piped in turquoise across the top.

I've never, nor shall I ever, mourn the loss of a fool. Losing a fool, is the same as gaining, retaining, and reaffirming my intelligence.

Remember you are the perfect reflector of your mind.

I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.

When you feel like you're crazy because you think differently than the people around you, God sends a confirmation that you've not lost it.

The doctrine of waiting for confirmation is one of the greatest time killers

You can become a saint! The good news is that God wants us all to go to Heaven! There is no greater proof than the gift of His Son, Jesus Christ. We, the baptized, have been entrusted with all the grace necessary to become a saint through the Holy Eucharist. Bus as if that was not enough, He gives us the ability to be Jesus' hands and feet on the Earth through the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit, the example of how to live those out through the lives of the saints, and the tremendous graces available through devotions approved by the Magisterium of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. Don't miss the opportunity!

With God, there’s always an appointed time for things, and when you put Him first, trust in His timing, and keep the faith, miracles happen!

Work hard and take risks. Try it before you confirm it is difficult!

You truly loved her but neither you are married to her nor you are dead. Aah liar, you did not love her enough. The only confirmation of true love is either you should be married to her or you commit suicide.