Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business. — Dolley Madison Copy Share Image
The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance) — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we,… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Of all Discourse , governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End , either by attaining, or by giving over. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it… — Richard Livingstone Copy Share Image
I think a part of evolution is the desire to know yourself, and know the world you live in, and discover everything… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
“Today will still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
My father... never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
“Shun too great a desire for knowledge, for in it there is much fretting and delusion. Intellectuals like to appear learned and… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“There’s power in knowledge and a little power feeds the desire for more of it. If the knowledge is something that few… — Jeffery Russell Copy Share Image
“My desire for knowledge is intermittent, but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“She had a great desire for knowledge, but she really preferred almost any source of information to the printed page; she had… — Henry James Copy Share Image
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“ To reach satisfaction in all, desire satisfaction in nothing. To come to possess all, desire the possession of nothing. To arrive at… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
The search for truth is, as it always has been, the noblest expression of the human spirit. Man's insatiable desire for knowledge… — Raymond B. Fosdick Copy Share Image
I have indeed lived and worked to my taste either in art or science. What more could a man desire? Knowledge has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“He constantly (tries to) keep them without knowledge and without desire, and where there are those who have knowledge, to keep them… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and… — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
“The tremendous historical need of our unsatisfied modern culture, the assembling around one of countless other cultures, the consuming desire for knowledge--what… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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