Kathryn Schulz Quotes
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.
If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.
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 we really don't know.
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.
Take away the ability of an intelligent, principled, hard-working mind to get it wrong, and you take away the whole thing.
Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly, it reminds us that we know that we could do better.
Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.
The inability to experience regret is one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths.
doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct
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.
The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number.
In the aftermath of our errors, our first task is always to establish their scope and nature.
conversion stories are one of the classic Western narratives about the self.
The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.
knowledge is conventionally viewed as belief plus a bunch of credentials
Reliance on other people's knowledge. . . . buys us all a lot of time. It also buys us, in essence, many billions of prosthetic brains.