If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy. — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“Our failure to understand another being's inner reality doesn't make that reality any less real, or any less valuable to that being. (p.255)” — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
Error ... is less an intellectual problem than an existential one - a crisis not in what we know, but in who we are.… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“Even a committed realist will concede that there are many situations where an absolute standard of truth is unavailable. And yet, confronted with such… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesen't remind us… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“I had, during many years, followed a golden rule, namely that whenever a published fact, a new observation or thought came across me, which… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“It is often precisely these irresolvable issues that arouse our most impassioned certainty that we are right and our adversaries are wrong. To my… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“The vast majority of our beliefs are really beliefs once removed. Our faith that we are right is faith that someone else is right.… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“When one admists that nothing is certain", proposed the philosopher Betrand Russell, "one must, I think, also add that some things are much more… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“It’s as if we regard other people as psychological crystals, with everything important refracted to the visible surface, while regarding ourselves as psychological icebergs,… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the way we… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“As all this suggests our relationship with evidence is seldom purely a cognitive one. Vilifying menstruating women bolstering anti-Muslim stereotypes murdering innocent citizens of… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
