Confidence Quote by Nate Silver

“The more intense the belief, the less likely that reason and evidence can dislodge it.”

— Linda Elder Richard Paul

“the weight of evidence ‘cannot convince those who do not wish to believe”

— Alison Weir

“We therefore should be more skeptical than we seem to be about evidence presented to us secondhand. We should become accustomed to asking ourselves…

— Thomas Gilovich

“The point being that people will often believe whatever they are told if they think they can trust the source.”

— Michael C. Kapler

“Faith requires no proof. No evidence. No explanation. Faith is entirely a matter of trust and belief. We cannot know, we can only believe.”

— Paula Brackston

“sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt.”

— William Faulkner

“entrenched disbelief is oddly immune to evidence.”

— Frans de Waal

“Evidence is of no longer consequence when hope enters the fray, and this is where faith is born—a seemingly abundant commodity certain powerful organizations…

— Justin Villanueva

“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of,…

— Richard Dawkins

“With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.”

— Criss Jami

“Confirmation bias is our innate tendency to pay more attention to information that confirms our beliefs.[”

— Cindy Alvarez

“We often fail to allow for the possibility that evidence that should be critical to our judgment is missing—what we see is all there…

— Daniel Kahneman