Appetite Quote by David O. McKay

An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the…

— W.N.P. Barbellion

“We have a hunger of the mind Which asks for knowledge all around us And the more we gain, the more is our desire.”

— Maria Mitchell

Knowledge is power-and power of one sort or another is the secret lust of human souls; and here is, beside the sense of exploration,…

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.

— Anonymous

“Initially, you grasp [knowledge] through the ‘light’ of the intellect and then the understanding arises, and thereafter a state in which there is absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed and attachment-abhorrence…

— Dada Bhagwan

Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire to impress…

— Hugh Nibley

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying…

— Ralph Cudworth

“Man's primary will to know struggles against the selfsatisfied formalism of empty learning which drugs man into the illusory calm of fulfillment. It fights…

— Karl Jaspers

“Knowledge is like an endless resource; a well of water that satisfies the innate thirst of the growing human soul. Therefore never stop learning...…

— Chidi Okonkwo

Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really grasped and…

— Claude Bernard

Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike…

— Brian Jacques

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

— Will Durant