Marginalism, falling to extreme, paying attention to only “one side of the moon”; conviction in something wrong: that you know “eternal truth”; that something does not change in time (hence is dead); …
It ain’t what we don’t know that gets us into trouble, it’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so (Mark Twain)
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance (George Bernard Shaw)
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher (Ambrose Bierce)
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Today’s truth will be tomorrow’s lie and you will be left questioning your own sanity (Michael R. Fletcher)
3 kinds of bias that shape your worldview
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Science advances one funeral at a time (Max Planck)
Illusion is the first of all pleasures
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion
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3 kinds of bias that shape your worldview
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one
Sometimes, silence is the best way to win an argument
Related to 1(j) Fighting, 4(j) Fear, 7(e) Stubbornness, 9(f) Worshiping, 10(e) Preaching, 11(e) Attachment, 11(g) Control, 13(e) Over-confidence, 13(f) Incompetence, 13(g) Anxiety, 13(h) Meticulousness, 13(i) Anger, 14(i) Formalism, 15(f) Convenience, 15(g) Dependence, 18(f) Manipulation, 21(f) Ignorance, 22(g) Shame, 22(f) Guilt
Incompatible with 2(a) Knowing
Often confused with 2(a) Knowing, 13(c) Confidence