Confirmatory Bias Quotes & Sayings

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

Life itself had become disembodied. My family, the spine of my days, had crumbled. I was lost in invertebrate time. — Joseph O'Neill

Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends. — Ron Chernow

What does he remember? He saw the engineer Bernd close the cellar door and sit on the stairs. — Anthony Doerr

But a person doesn't always know the difference between a new beginning and a forever sort of ending. — Ali Benjamin

I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world. — Anne Roiphe

It's called "being an artist" for a reason; it's something YOU ARE. It's how you live. It's WHO you are. How you spend your life and what you leave behind. — Charlotte Eriksson

There's still a lot of Americans who think that those who perpetrated the attacks on 9/11 came from Canada, which is absolutely and totally incorrect. — Richard Fadden

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. — Toni Cade Bambara

That's what peace is, right? Postponing the conflict until the thing you were fighting over doesn't matter. — James S.A. Corey

You have no merit of your own to plead why He should pardon you, but plead His written promises and He will perform them. Are — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart from conditions of war and law, that look established human relations between the two men. At that moment an immense number of things passed dimly through both their minds, and they realized that they were both children of humanity and were brothers. — Leo Tolstoy