“I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere. — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
John Boehner will be the new speaker unless, out of habit, he blocks his own confirmation. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“All the honey in the world is nothing without the confirmation of the bees.” — Jarvis Price Copy Share Image
“With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
There's no confirmation process for the staffers that the president puts around him at the White House. Those are the people he… — Susan Page Copy Share Image
The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status. — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Persistent, internal inklings matched by external confirmation is often the way God directs believers into His will. — Priscilla Shirer Copy Share Image
If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Betsy DeVos, for example, has shown that she’s flatly ignorant of an astounding amount of basic education policy. It might be possible… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
If one undertakes retrospection of the day's events, one must do it regularly at the appointed hour, not fitfully, not doing it… — Mahavira Copy Share Image
He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he… — Patricia Ireland Copy Share Image
Being deeply knowledgeable on one subject narrows one's focus and increases confidence, but it also blurs dissenting views until they are no… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
One of the issues that I've raised on the Foreign Relations Committee, and I raised it when Secretary Locke came for his… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
Before my encounter with Thomist philosophy through Maritain, I had almost reached the same conclusions through the logical development of my work,… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
When a spectator approaches a painting with his own particular set of filters or theories, be they historical, political, intellectual or whatever… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
“You can become a saint! The good news is that God wants us all to go to Heaven! There is no greater… — John T Stobb Copy Share Image
The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I once told you that I am not a saint, and I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
It's something, since the nomination and confirmation hearings of Justice Ginsberg, that's really become kind of an unwritten rule, this "I can't… — Shannon Bream Copy Share Image
Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins is an essential covenant to make with the Lord. Faith and repentance precede this… — A. Theodore Tuttle Copy Share Image
You are not saintly (a good person) because an organization says so, but rather because you stay connected to the divinity of… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“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… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
Shaw, we're going to die, aren't we?" Probably. Why?" Just wanted confirmation. — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“Don't just create a change for yourself, be a centre of change to others.” — Richmond Akhigbe Copy Share Image
Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world. — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
