Would you rather; doubt and be right OR Trust and be wrong. And WHY?

Answer 1

I'd rather trust and be wrong. Self-respect entails respect for one's fellow humans. Then intelligence requires honing judgement by observation. But trust itself should surely come initially from observation and judgement based on intelligence and experience. Ultimately however I'd rather make a mistake and learn from it than live with paranoia.

Answer 2

This is taking an one sided view.

One can doubt and be WRONG and regret for life that we doubted someone . We will have feeling of guilt.

One can trust and be Right, too. This strengthens one`s baisc human values of trust.. When we say we trust in God we , actually, mean that we trust in ourselves and we expect the unknown forces to strengthen our belief and hope. If we are going to be doubting , say God, we will be doubting ourselves and our ability to succeed.

Between these two extremes lie a tried& proven in built system which , over a period of time tells us how far we can trust or distrust. We go along with that, most of the times. To some the trust / doubt criteria is based on the risk factor they can take in. Some will trust with money , loss or gain. Some with relationship. some with health & welfare of their people.

In short , I would rather trust and be right or wrong.

Answer 3

Assuming I'm not 100% aaccurate, there are two other possibilities" doubt and be wrong and trust and be right.

For me Trusting and being right is the best! I can tolerate a lot of trusting and being wrong, for an opportunity to trust and be right. If I doubt, I never get that opportunity.

Our expectations can often be a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Of course, if your trust is completely unrealistic you are not helping yourself or anybody else.

Answer 4

I'd rather doubt and be right. It just causes less trouble that way because at least you *bother* to reality check. As in, you compare what's going on in your head to what's actually out there to the best capacity of your senses. Or, failing that, yes, what other people tell you is so.

Point is, if you doubt you are less likely to be considered a madman, and less likely to make the madman's mistakes.

Whereas, if you Trust....you've already made up your mind, and shut it down. Which leaves you less prone to fits of reason as others here have shown. Yes, I'll say it: all other things being equal, those who trust are *less* likely to admit it when they are wrong and *less* likely to correct the error of their ways for it. This is my personal experience, *and also* what I have read about the history of "radical" or "visionary" acts by the most *trusting* ones of the bunch--leaders of organized religions. It all leads to warfare of some sort and more pain and destruction than necessary in the end.

It's better to doubt yourself a little, fact-check, reality-check, make sure you *are not* delusional, than it is to trust, trust blindly (which is what "trusting while being wrong" is) and possibly end up becoming a threat to yourself and others *courtesy* of not just being wrong, but of being *crazy* about it. As in, you end up "crazy" in Einstein's sense of the word:

You keep doing the same exact thing over and over and over again expecting a different result *regardless* of the results you are actually getting.

I hope this made some sense....thanks for your time.

Answer 5

In the short term, doubt and be right, but to go through life never having trusted anyone for fear of being wrong? That's no way to live.

Answer 6

Doubt and be right. Trusting requires a lot of your person belief to be put in someone or something...and so i´d rather just doubt and be right, because at least this way it doesnt hurt....

Answer 7

Trust and be wrong. Then I don't let myself down for having trust. To doubt, is to doubt yourself, even if you are right, you are right about doubting yourself and trust in another. Sometimes being wrong is better.

Answer 8

I think it's a good idea to look at the two important words in this question first and fully understand there implications and meanings.

Doubt, Feeling of uncertainty, undecided frame of mind, inclination to disbelieve: uncertain state of things.

Trust: Confindence in reliance on, some quality of person or thing. or truth of statement. Confident, expectation, hope, confidence in future payment for goods/work done, supplied credit, object of trust.

Also we have the condition of being trusted ourselves, when we ask another to believe we don't have a contageous desiese before we make love etc. Or we sell someone a computer as perfect in good order. or. Electing a government to run things for us etc.

Both words are pretty loaded! To doubt someone we first rely on this strange feeling we get about them, that causes us to doubt their words and only the future can reveal whether our doubts were founded or not!
Trust rely's on us believing that person to be telling the truth, that is normally done by looking into the persons eyes to see if they are telling the truth or it is a friend whom we have known for a long time.

But here in your question, I believe that you are pointing more to the doubts and beliefs of the statements of truth within spirituality! The fact is we have NO CHOICE here as to whether we trust or doubt. If we are earnestly seeking the truth that is and not just playing at this understanding game. Our own trusts and doubts will come up into our consciousness without any help from ego or any decision making by self. To blindly trust anyone or anything has not being the way of this generation. The society we have grown up in has made us all very sceptical of all things and people and even the sayings of the wise ones are no longer trusted. One cannot go out today and say I am going to believe all people today and do this.

With scripture and all it's promises, the ones who blindly believe with ignorance, blindly trusting faith have proved themselves to be understanding and knowing nothing. So blind faith and trust does not give a person God or wisdom.
One's who constantly question that which they read or come to know and understand are the ones who begin to know certain things, where by they no longer need either trust or doubt. When one knows something then there is no doubt.
Knowing something as a fact is something you can not share with another, it's your own personal intuition and insight through some spiritual practice such as deep meditation etc.

So in answer to the question, I simply use both these state's of being to come to a better understanding about who I am and what I know.

A better way of using these words is on oneself, do you trust yourself, and do you doubt yourself!
Use them to your benefit always. Our mind/consciousness is our only true helper.

Answer 9

Trust and be wrong - This allows the possibility of trusting and being right which is my ideal; doubting closes the door on trust, and thows away any possibility of letting the right shine through.

Answer 10

Doubt indicates fear. As I am trying to reduce the influence of fear in my life and decision making processes, I set aside my doubt, investigate possibilities, consider the source, then come to a decision that is right for me. Having trust indicates one is ready to consider all possibilities, believe where belief is thought foolish in the outer world and then proven to be correct later. Trusting follows more the principle of treating others as we want to be treated. So, with wisdom, trust.