A monthly thread for posting rationality-related quotes you've seen recently (or had stored in your quotesfile for ages).
Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted up/down separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then fine, post them together.)
Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.
Well, at least Buddha started. If he'd gone a bit further along that particular road he may have added:
Going the wrong way.
Making sacrifices to further a journey along the road to truth that do not give commensurate reward.
Trying to go further or faster than you are able and damaging your existing progress in the process.
Building (and continuing to build) your model of truth on inefficient foundations.
Spending resources (time, money, attention) on truth seeking now when such resources could have been used to generate far more resources for truth prod
A monthly thread for posting rationality-related quotes you've seen recently (or had stored in your quotesfile for ages).