Rebjane63 on Nostr: Credit: Classic Literature Dump (Facebook) "The hardest person to question is often ...

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"The hardest person to question is often ourselves. We can demand evidence from everyone else while quietly making exceptions for the beliefs, fears, ambitions, and assumptions we desperately want to be true. Self-deception rarely feels like lying; it feels like rationalizing. We select the evidence that comforts us, explain away what threatens us, and call the result “what I believe.” Feynman's warning is therefore less about intelligence than intellectual honesty. The real test of a thinking person is not how confidently they defend their conclusions, but whether they are willing to discover that they might be wrong." #questioneveryting