Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

If you Google 'regret and tattoo,' you will get 11.5 million hits.

We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.

If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.

Parading our own brilliance and exulting in other people's errors is not very nice. For that matter, even wanting to parade our own brilliance and exult in other people's errors is not very nice, although it is certainly very human.

Take away the ability of an intelligent, principled, hard-working mind to get it wrong, and you take away the whole thing.