The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
J.K. RowlingStichwörter: life being-wrong
Granted it is easy at least comparatively to find pleasure in error when there's nothing at stake. But that can't be the whole story since all of us have been known to throw tantrums over totally trivial mistakes. What makes illusions different is that for the most part we enter in them by consent. We might not know exactly how we are going to err but we know that the error is coming and we say yes to the experience anyways.
In a sense much the same thing could be said of life in general. We can't know where your next error lurks or what form it will take but we can be very sure that it is waiting for us. With illusions we look forward to this encounter since whatever minor price we paid in pride is handily outweighed by curiosity at first and by pleasure afterward. The same will not always true when we venture past these simple perceptual failures to more complex and consequential mistakes But nor is willing the embrace of error always beyond us. In fact this might be the most important thing that illusions can teach us: that is is possible at least some of the time to find in being wrong a deeper satisfaction then we would have found being right.
Stichwörter: life error being-wrong
To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton PearceStichwörter: creativity being-wrong fear-of-failure
Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong
Kathryn SchulzStichwörter: psychology philisophical being-wrong
without being sure of something, we can not begin to think about everything elses
Kathryn SchulzStichwörter: being-wrong social-sciences
doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct
Kathryn SchulzStichwörter: social-science being-wrong
Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.
Seth GodinStichwörter: courage initiative being-wrong
Aristocrats don't notice philosophical conundra. They just ignore them. Philosophy includes contemplating the possibility that you might be wrong, sir, and a real aristocrat knows that he is always right. It's not vanity, you understand, it's built-in absolute certainty. They may sometimes be as mad as a hatful of spoons, but they are always definitely and certainly mad.
Terry PratchettStichwörter: aristocrats being-wrong aristocracy being-right
For a scientist, this is a good way to live and die, maybe the ideal way for any of us - excitedly finding we were wrong and excitedly waiting for tomorrow to come so we can start over.
Norman MacleanStichwörter: scientists being-wrong philosophy-of-life meaningful-life scientific-ethic
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