Value Faith The Heavy Burden of Truth: The Painstaking Work of Honest Conclusion
With the support of the internet and social media, we are obviously in an era of instantaneous opinion and commentary;…
Critical Thinking
The Trojan Horse: Discerning The Destructive Gift
History is full of the ruins of great empires, but few falls are as haunting as that of Troy. For…
Assuming Good Faith: Overcoming Our Instinctive Reaction to Disagreement
In the modern digital landscape, we have become experts at the “quick exit.” With a single click, we can unfollow…
Two Ways to Be Fooled: Believing Lies and Rejecting Truth
Deception almost never announces itself, because it does not always arrive wearing falsehoods or obvious errors. Sometimes, it appears as…
Knowledge is Power – Francis Bacon
Few statements in human history are as short, memorable, and profoundly true as Francis Bacon said: “Knowledge is power.” And…
To Understand is To Be Free – Baruch Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza once wrote, “The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is…
Science is Organized Knowledge. Wisdom is Organized Life – Immanuel Kant
Information has never been more abundant. We live in a world where you can learn anything within minutes, how the…
The Illusion of Competence: How the Dunning-Kruger Effect Blinds Us
There is a strange paradox in human thinking: The people who know the least too many times feel the most…
Confirmation Bias: To See Clearly, You Must Look Beyond What Confirms You
Obviously we all like to believe that we are rational, clear thinkers; that our decisions are guided by truth, by…
Stop Holding Contradictory Beliefs: A Lesson from Russell’s Paradox
Have you ever come across ideas that shake the mind? Yes, some ideas break the mind before they build it.…