11 quotes found
“knowledge is conventionally viewed as belief plus a bunch of credentials”
“conversion stories are one of the classic Western narratives about the self.”
“In the aftermath of our errors, our first task is always to establish their scope and nature.”
“Reliance on other people's knowledge. . . . buys us all a lot of time. It also buys us, in essence, many billions of prosthetic brains.”
“The world is outside us; our senses are within us. How, then, do the two come together so that we can know something? Obviously our senses can't go forth and drag an actual chunk if the world back ...”
“Doubt is the act of challenging our beliefs. . . . This is an active, investigative doubt: the kind that inspires us to wander onto shaky limbs or out into left field; the kind that doesn't divide ...”
“If imagination is what enables us to conceive of and enjoy stories other than our own, and if empathy is the act of taking other peoples stories seriously, certainty deadens or destroys both qualit...”
“To err is to wander and wandering is the way we discover the world and lost in thought it is the also the way we discover ourselves. Being right might be gratifying but in the end it is static a me...”
“Here, then, are some ways we can try to prevent mistakes. We can foster the ability to listen to each other and the freedom to speak our minds. We can create open and transparent environments inste...”
“the more different you and I are, the less we will be able to identify with each other, and the more difficult it will to understand each other. If we can't see ourselves in another person at allif...”
“[There] is . . . a problem that bedevils all of us as members of communities of believers. I call this problem our disagreement deficit, and it comes in four parts. . . . First, our communities exp...”
