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Doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct
— Kathryn Schulz
The Catch-22 of wrongology: in order to get rid of error, we would already need to be infallible.
— Kathryn Schulz
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.
— Kathryn Schulz
Often, our beliefs about what is factually right and our beliefs about what is morally right are entirely inextricable.
— Kathryn Schulz
We look into our hearts and see objectivity; we look into our minds and see rationality; we look into our beliefs and see reality.
— Kathryn Schulz
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.
— Kathryn Schulz
Freud, as I've already noted, believed that the false worlds of our dreams reveal deep and hidden truths about ourselves.
— Kathryn Schulz
In the aftermath of our errors, our first task is always to establish their scope and nature.
— Kathryn Schulz
The inability to experience regret is one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths.
— Kathryn Schulz
The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number.
— Kathryn Schulz
Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.
— Kathryn Schulz
Confirmation bias is the tendency to give more weight to evidence that confirms our beliefs than to evidence that challenges them.
— Kathryn Schulz
This idea began to emerge during the Scientific Revolution, through that era's hallmark development, the scientific method.
— Kathryn Schulz
Reliance on other people's knowledge ... buys us all a lot of time. It also buys us, in essence, many billions of prosthetic brains.
— Kathryn Schulz
Error in extremis - extremely pure, extremely persistent, or extremely peculiar - becomes insanity. madness is radical wrongness.
— Kathryn Schulz
[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
If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.
— Kathryn Schulz
Our mistakes show us that the contents of our minds can be as convincing as reality.
— Kathryn Schulz
Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.
— Kathryn Schulz
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.
— Kathryn Schulz
The point isn't to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.
— Kathryn Schulz
Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.
— Kathryn Schulz
Our steady state seems to be one of unconsciously assuming that we are very close to omniscient.
— Kathryn Schulz
Your own regrets may not be as ugly as you think they are.
— Kathryn Schulz
If you Google 'regret and tattoo,' you will get 11.5 million hits.
— Kathryn Schulz
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.
— Kathryn Schulz
Take away the ability of an intelligent, principled, hard-working mind to get it wrong, and you take away the whole thing.
— Kathryn Schulz
Both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold
— Kathryn Schulz