"To confess your fallibility and then do nothing……" — Eliezer Yudkowsky

"To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty."

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

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67 Quotes by Eliezer Yudkowsky

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There is light in the world, and it is us!
That which the truth nourishes should thrive.
If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to…
Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once…
The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally…
The police officer who puts their life on the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray vision, no super-strength, no ability…
If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why…
There are no surprising facts, only models that are surprised by facts; and if a model is surprised by the…
Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed…
You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.
Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts…
I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know…

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More Boast Quotes

This quote is filed under Boast Quotes, one of 323 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect… — Jane Austen
My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put… — Russell Baker
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett
Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen. — Aeschylus
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book… — John le Carre
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. — George William Foote
Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest. — Neil Kinnock
A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted. — Michel de Montaigne
I come from grunge, and then Brit-pop, scenes where you boast about how little you spent on an outfit. ...… — Caitlin Moran
We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the… — George Washington
Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know… — Leonardo da Vinci
Boasts are wind and deeds are hard. — Isaac Asimov

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