Elizabeth Moon Quotes

Doubt grows with knowledge.

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

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king.

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

I love to doubt as well as know.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.