Benefits Quote by Francis Bacon

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Men have desired to gain knowledge and then power so that they can accomplish their goals of conquest, control, and manipulation.

— Anonymous

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy…

— Napoleon Hill

The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

— Patrick Rothfuss

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their…

— Aristotle

Men look on knowledge which they learn--or might learn--from others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their own: in…

— Sarah Fielding

Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.

— Henry David Thoreau

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

All men by nature desire knowledge.

— Aristotle

Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod…

— Henry Ward Beecher