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This is the most forceful version I've seen (assumed it had been posted before, discovered it probably hasn't, won't start a new thread since it's too similar):
Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong
But I'm not comfortable endorsing either of these quotes without a comment.
chipaca's quote (and friends) suggest to me that
Schulz's quote (and book) suggest to me that
I'd prefer to emphasize that "You are already in trouble when you feel like you’re still on solid ground," or said another way:
Becoming less wrong feels different from the experience of going about my business in a state that I will later decide was delusional.
Schulz hasn't been quoted here before, but you might've seen my use of that quote on http://www.gwern.net/Mistakes to which I will add a quote of Wittgenstein making the same quote but much more compressed and concisely: