Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong..

Parading our own brilliance and exulting in other people's errors is not very nice. For that matter, even wanting to parade our own brilliance and ex….

Take away the ability of an intelligent, principled, hard-working mind to get it wrong, and you take away the whole thing..

The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number..

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

doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct.

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….

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

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 ….

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 ….

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….

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

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….

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 ….

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..

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.

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

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 ….

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….

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..