Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.

The word "question" originates from the Latin root, quaestio, which means "to seek." Inside the word "question" is the word "quest," suggesting that within every question is an adventure, a pursuit which can lead us to hidden treasure.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.

Do you really know what's going on And if you don't... find out

Ignorance is the mother of research.

Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.

Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.

The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.