27 Quotes About Confirmation-bias

Your mind constantly seeks proof that will confirm your beliefs. If you have negative beliefs, your mind will seek to prove those negative thoughts. If you have positive beliefs, your minds will seek to prove those positive thoughts. Therefore, it is important to be mindful of our beliefs.

Even the self-assured truth-finders and self-proclaimed freedom-fighters reject Truth. As admirable as such endeavors may be, they still only really want it so long as it to some extent confirms what they had already presumed to be true.

Our misbeliefs often make it impossible for us to realize, and/or to accept, some facts.

Research is often the search for facts that support one’s prejudice(s); and the ignoring, and/or even hiding, of facts that do the opposite.

Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie.

Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question.

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

Whether we regard someone’s opinion as a fact or as an opinion depends on whether they are criticizing or complimenting us.

Since there is nothing new under the sun. The aim of motivation is to confirm what you already know. Simply, clearing your doubts.