“Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong”
― Kathryn Schulz
“When 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
“doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct”
― 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 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.”
― Kathryn Schulz
“Properly speaking, there is no certainty; there are only people who are certain."
― Kathryn Schulz
“The fact is, with the exception of our own minds, no power on earth has the consistent and absolute ability to convince us that we are wrong. However much we might be prompted by cues from other people or our environment, the choice to face up to error is ultimately ours alone.”
― Kathryn Schulz
“Ignorance isn't necessarily a vacuum waiting to be filled; just as often, it is a wall, actively maintained."
― Kathryn Schulz