Quote by Nicholas Cross

“The human tendency toward confirmatory thinking - all of us are bias to seek information that fits what we already believe.”

— Valerie Tarico

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

— Cindy Alvarez

“[W]e have an automatic tendency to pay attention to or seek out information that is in agreement with (confirms) our preconceptions, and to ignore,…

— Wadsworth Publishing

We tend to accept information that confirms our prior beliefs and ignore or discredit information that does not. This confirmation bias settles over our…

— Kyle Hill

It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire to find…

— George Henry Lewes

“Psychologists call this natural tendency to be selective in both our memory and our perception confirmation bias. People with strong convictions often take confirmation…

— Robert Carroll

Studies show that when we vocalize an opinion, whether or not we believe it to be true, in time we usually come to support…

— David J. Lieberman

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

— John Burroughs

The more we are committed to believing that something is true, the less likely we are to believe that its opposite is true, even…

— Marshall Goldsmith

“Thinking is a tiring process; it is much easier to accept beliefs passively than to think them out, rigorously questioning their grounds by asking…

— L. Susan Stebbing

“Often our minds, conditioned and indoctrinated as they have been, can prevent us from perceiving the truth; sometimes our bodies can tell us more.”

— Hallie Iglehart Auste

Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too…

— Walter Abish