Disconfirming Quotes

#1. Those who believe in climate change, as I do, I think it's also fair to say that they are more receptive to confirming evidence than disconfirming evidence. They happen to be right, but their motivations are in play also.

Cass Sunstein

#2. Most people early achieve and later intensify a tendency to process new and disconfirming information so that any original conclusion remains intact. They become people of whom Philip Wylie observed: "You couldn't 't squeeze a dime between what they already know and what they will never learn."

Charlie Munger

#3. Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great thinker.

Charlie Munger

#4. Moreover, joint occurrences tend to be better recalled than instances when the effect does not occur. The proneness to remember confirming instances, but to overlook disconfirming ones, further serves to convert, in thought, coincidences into causalities.

Albert Bandura

#5. Life is service.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our circulation, the air our breath, and the earth our body.

Deepak Chopra

#7. Beneath every excuse lies a fear. Practice being fearless.

Robin Sharma

#8. Nature has no outline. Imagination has.

William Blake

#9. Running removes us briefly from the fragmentation and depersonalization of the digital world

Amby Burfoot

#10. In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.

Jack Nicklaus

#11. if you're with someone secure, they nurture you into a more secure stance.

Amir Levine

#12. You get to know people as individuals. The dreams of people may differ, but everybody wants their dreams to come true. And America, above all places, gives us the freedom to do that

Ronald Reagan

#13. [Christ's] character is twofold: like the head of the body in that he is regarded as God and yet comparable to the feet in that he put on humanity for the sake of our salvation, a man of passions like ours.

Eusebius

#14. Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu heresy. How dare a bunch of goondas shrink the soaring majesty of the Vedas and the Upanishads to the petty bigotry of their brand of identity politics?

Shashi Tharoor

#15. When liberty is taken away by force, it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished by default it can never be recovered.

Dorothy Thompson