Advantage Quote by Samuel Johnson

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

— Michel de Montaigne

Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply'd.

— Bernard de Mandeville

If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be…

— Hakim ibn Hizam

I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years…

— John Henry Newman

Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant…

— Samuel Johnson

No amount of knowledge will nourish or sustain your spirit, it can never bring you ulimate happiness or peace. Life requires more that knowledge;…

— Dan Millman

Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our…

— Anonymous

Each member of society can have only a small fraction of the knowledge possessed by all, and...each is therefore ignorant of most of the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for…

— Rebecca Goldstein