Desire for knowledge Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Download Open image “It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.” — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire for knowledge Earth Earth Desired Heaven Heaven and earth Heaven Earth Knowledge Knows Nature Science Secret Secrets Secrets Heaven
It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
I relished the sweet sense of keeping a unique secret in my mind - a wonderful magical universe that I could go to any… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Everything I know now . . . the pitfalls, the highs and lows, everything . . . it taught me and made stronger. — Ray Allen Copy Share Image
For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever,… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
When I step into the batters box. The fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
“...the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope, and anticipations of joy.” — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
After days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life. Nay, more, I became myself… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
“I considered the being whom I had cast among mankind and endowed with the will and power to effect purposes of horror, such as… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
“But liberty had been a useless gift to me had I not, as I awakened to reason, at the same time awakened to revenge.” — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
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 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 of the… — Stephen Hawking 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 constant. The… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to… — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
The two explorers are given fictional names. But as in real life, they travel to the Amazon roughly a generation apart, in the early-to-mid… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire… — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald Copy Share Image
There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that mankind should… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Kant ... was also quite aware that "the urgent need" of reason is both different from and "more than mere quest and desire for… — Hannah Arendt 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 about himself,… — Raymond B. Fosdick Copy Share Image
Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
![“Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause, or when the cause of the particular effect is one that exceeds his power of understanding. Hence, wonder is a cause of pleasure insofar as there is…” quote by Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/79f/thomas-aquinas-837_arise_wonder-admiratio-astonishment-marvel-is_1916754.jpg)
