Animal Quote by Thomas Hobbes

Desire to know why, and how curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable…

— Thomas Hobbes

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

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the…

— John Tillotson

“A man engrossed in sensual pleasures may form a mistaken out look upon life and think that he enjoys life more than others do.…

— Mohammad Qutub

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 by the activity of our passions, that our reason improves: we covet knowledge merely because we covet enjoyment, and it is impossible…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Passion, the powerful desire to please limitless, uninhibited until there are no desires remaining.

— Stacy Wilks

Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.”

— Robert Wright

The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is…

— Samuel Johnson

There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and some are…

— Guy Davenport