"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 identity crisis in the questions we ask ourselves in the aftemath of error: What was I thinking? How could I have done that?"

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Source : Kathryn Schulz (2010). “Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error”, p.21, Harper Collins

Kathryn Schulz

#Thinking Quotes #Errors Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith.”
“But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so?”
“Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.”
“Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.”
“No prayer is complete without presence.”
“Courage is grace under pressure.”
“Who ever he is, I agree with your mother," said Dad as he entered the kitchen. "Stay away from him. Stay away from them all until you're of marrying age. Once you reach a nice, mature fifty-four, gentlemen callers will be welcomed here.”
“We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.”

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