doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct Kathryn Schulz More Quotes by Kathryn Schulz More Quotes From Kathryn Schulz Take away the ability of an intelligent, principled, hard-working mind to get it wrong, and you take away the whole thing. Kathryn Schulz hard-workintelligentmind 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. Kathryn Schulz wandersituationway The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number. Kathryn Schulz kindmistakenumbers 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 ultimate inside job. Yes, the world can be profoundly confusing; and yes, other people can mislead or deceive you. In the end, though, nobody but you can choose to believe your own beliefs. Kathryn Schulz jobsbelievereality If you Google 'regret and tattoo,' you will get 11.5 million hits. Kathryn Schulz googletattooregret 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 should always look forward and not backward, and that one of the noblest and best things we can do is strive to live a life free of regrets. Kathryn Schulz regretmotivationinspiration Your own regrets may not be as ugly as you think they are. Kathryn Schulz uglyregretthinking 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 truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway? Kathryn Schulz philosophymeanreality Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. Kathryn Schulz wowknowsmistake As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It's eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes both what and how I write. Kathryn Schulz insidelibraryi-canworld
