Top 371 Confirmed Quotes & Sayings

Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

I don't think I'm confirmed bachelor.

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

We actually have to have a government. We have to have people confirmed and put into office.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition.

Believe and be confirmed.

Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

He has a competent person, I think who will be confirmed as HHS secretary, Congressman Tom Price.

A free-loader is a confirmed guest. He is the man who is always willing to come to dinner.

If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.

A cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed.

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

I confirmed to the prime minister that we appreciate our friendship.

I wouldn't suppose for one moment that there's a single one of Trump's voters that would be anything but confirmed in their beliefs.

On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.

Were I confirmed as a judge, I would decide cases according to the rule of law beginning to end.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.

My father was a man of principle who found his principles confirmed in the unremitting failure which they brought on him.

If I'm confirmed I'll be myself.

If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths to which human behaviour can sink. The more sin he sees, the more his belief in Original Sin is confirmed. Everyone likes to have his deepest convictions confirmed; that is one of the most abiding of human satisfaction.

Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in a theory until it has been confirmed by observation. I hope I shall not shock the experimental physicists too much if I add that it is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they have been confirmed by theory.

Authority that is not confirmed by true reason seems weak. Whereas true reason does not need to be confirmed by any authority.

The resurrection of Jesus is rooted in history, grounded in scripture and confirmed in experience.

What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches.

I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom.

Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory.

As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed.

We have a priest at Inter Milan and a chapel at the training ground. That is where I was baptised and confirmed into the church.

Thank God she doesn't have to be confirmed by the Senate.(on the birth of his granddaughter)

If confirmed, I will be a strong advocate for great public schools.

And they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it.

All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.

The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether.

Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me.

Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form.

Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid. She was a little disappointed in him when he grew up.

The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as some must trifle away age because they trifled away youth, others must labor on in a maze of error because they have wandered there too long to find their way out.

I have a strong antipathy to everything connected with gardens, gardening and gardeners. . . . Gardening seems to me a kind of admission of defeat. . . . Man was made for better things than pruning his rose trees. The state of mind of the confirmed gardener seems to me as reprehensible as that of the confirmed alcoholic. Both have capitulated to the world. Both have become lotus eaters and drifters.

Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.

No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side.

By the end of the first decade of writing, I considered myself a confirmed failure in the eyes of the world.

As a confirmed astronomer I'm always for a better sky.

You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.

I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.

I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.

He's gonna be fine," I confirmed. Can we see him?" Iggy asked. Ig, I hate to break it to you, but you're blind.

What is it about royalty - even if you're a confirmed republican - that is dramatically interesting?

Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.