“...[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.” — 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
“We are more alarmed by leaders who waver than by those who screw up. (p.174)” — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“Plato (...) defined knowledge as "justified true belief". To his mind, you could only claim to know something if A) it was true; and… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education. — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
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