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Doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct

Knowledge is conventionally viewed as belief plus a bunch of credentials

The Catch-22 of wrongology: in order to get rid of error, we would already need to be infallible.

Without being sure of something, we can not begin to think about everything elses

Call it the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle of Error: we can be wrong, or we can know it, but we can't do both at the same time.

Often, our beliefs about what is factually right and our beliefs about what is morally right are entirely inextricable.

We look into our hearts and see objectivity; we look into our minds and see rationality; we look into our beliefs and see reality.

If it is sweet to be right, then - let's not deny it - it is downright savory to point out that someone else is wrong.

Freud, as I've already noted, believed that the false worlds of our dreams reveal deep and hidden truths about ourselves.

In the aftermath of our errors, our first task is always to establish their scope and nature.

The inability to experience regret is one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths.

The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number.

it is ultimately wrongness, not rightness, that can teach us who we are.

Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

Confirmation bias is the tendency to give more weight to evidence that confirms our beliefs than to evidence that challenges them.

This idea began to emerge during the Scientific Revolution, through that era's hallmark development, the scientific method.

Reliance on other people's knowledge ... buys us all a lot of time. It also buys us, in essence, many billions of prosthetic brains.

Error in extremis - extremely pure, extremely persistent, or extremely peculiar - becomes insanity. madness is radical wrongness.

Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong

Conversion stories are one of the classic Western narratives about the self.

[W]hen we make mistakes, we shrug and say that we are human. As bats are batty and slugs are sluggish, our own species is synonymous with screwing up.

If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.

Our mistakes show us that the contents of our minds can be as convincing as reality.

Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.

The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

The point isn't to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.

Our steady state seems to be one of unconsciously assuming that we are very close to omniscient.

Your own regrets may not be as ugly as you think they are.

If you Google 'regret and tattoo,' you will get 11.5 million hits.

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.

Take away the ability of an intelligent, principled, hard-working mind to get it wrong, and you take away the whole thing.

Both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold