Confirmation Quotes

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

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

Believe and be confirmed.

I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.

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

A geometrical theory in physical interpretation can never be validated with mathematical certainty ... ; like any other theory of empirical science, it can acquire only a more or less high degree of confirmation.

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.

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere.

Confirmation strengthens us to defend the faith and to spread the Gospel courageously

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.

Let everything be a confirmation of Awareness.

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.

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

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.

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.

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

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.

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

National security adviser is not a position that requires confirmation. This is a pick that like [Donald Trump] Chief of Staff, he gets to choose on his own and have installed.

In pre-Trump Washington where the old rules applied, Rudy Giuliani could never survive the Senate confirmation process.

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.

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

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.

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.