Desire Quote by Charles Darwin

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.

— Cynthia Kenyon

I don’t understand anything...and I no longer want to understand anything. I want to stick to the fact...If I wanted to understand something, I…

— Anonymous

I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.

— Homer Hickam

In the wider context, what I believe I was - the point I was making was that our life experiences do permit us to…

— Sonia Sotomayor

Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.

— Bruce Lee

I have been a strong proponent of helping people understand that during the last decade or so, as it lies at the very bottom…

— Edgar Mitchell

Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the…

— Henry David Thoreau

I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction…

— Ada Lovelace

Even in earliest youth my fondest desire was to understand Nature, and thus to come closer to the truth; a truth that I was…

— Viktor Schauberger

Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

— Frantz Fanon

I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.

— Salvador Dali

The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and…

— Lillian Gish