Belief Quote by Murray Gell-Mann

How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming…

— Steven Johnson

“Error is the ultimate inside job. Yes, the world can be profoundly confusing; and yes, other people can mislead or deceive you. In the…

— Kathryn Schulz

We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.

— Donald Berwick

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that error and truth…

— Anonymous

We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who…

— Carl Sagan

We must all beware the very real and understandable human tendency to ignore or subvert facts, and findings of science, that discomfort us for…

— William R. Brody

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their…

— John Stuart Mill

“The only way to solve our problems is to first admit that our actions and beliefs up to this point have been wrong and…

— Mark Manson

Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs

— Albert Bandura

One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors.

— Ronald Reagan

To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Yet it is unassailably true that so long as we lack omniscience and do not know all of the future, all our generalizations are…

— Morris F. Cohen