The Arrogance of Being Right Magnifies the Risk of Being Wrong

“Blind certainty- a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn’t even know he’s locked up.

The point here, is that I think this is one part of what, ‘teaching me how to think,’ is really supposed to mean.

To be just a little less arrogant, to have just a little critical awareness about myself and my certainties.

Because a huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded.”

- David Foster

Commencement Speech to Kenyon College class of 2005 written by David Foster Wallace