First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever ….

Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong.

Error ... is less an intellectual problem than an existential one - a crisis not in what we know, but in who we are. We hear something of that identi….

wrongness always seems to come at us from left field - that is, from outside ourselves. But the reality could hardly be more different. Error is the ….

I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time, that we ….

Unlike earlier thinkers, who had sought to improve their accuracy by getting rid of error, Laplace realized that you should try to get more error: ag….

both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold.

Of all the things we are wrong about, error might well top the list ... We are wrong about what it means to be wrong. Far from being a sign of intell….

If you Google 'regret and tattoo,' you will get 11.5 million hits..

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..

A whole lot of us go through life assuming that we are basically right, basically all the time, about basically everything: about our political and i….

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 ….

The inability to experience regret is one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths..

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 what we d….

without being sure of something, we can not begin to think about everything elses.

And to me, if you really want to rediscover wonder, you need to step outside of that tiny, terrified space of rightness and look around at each other….

If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people and we don’t want to hurt them or lose them, we should feel pain when t….

To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the way we discover ourselves. Being right migh….

Your own regrets may not be as ugly as you think they are..

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..