Comment by Eric Covert (eric-covert-1) on The Meditation on Curiosity · 2024-05-31T17:15:56.531Z · LW · GW

If in your heart you believe you already know, or if in your heart you do not wish to know, then your questioning will be purposeless and your skills without direction. Curiosity seeks to annihilate itself; there is no curiosity that does not want an answer.

 

I always found this exemplified in the concept of the "empty cup" from varied middle eastern philosophies. A "full cup" is a heart that believes it already knows.