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..

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

The point isn’t to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them..

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..

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly, it reminds us that we know that we could do better..

If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy..

Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education..

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….