The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.
We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.
It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.
Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.