Ardent Quote by Thomas Jefferson

I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every acquisition. There…

— Immanuel Kant

I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life…

— Georges Bataille

Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the…

— Samuel Johnson

In all ages, through all the varied experience of individuals and nations, knowledge has been the power which has civilized, elevated and dignified humanity.…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

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

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

“The seekers after knowledge should, of course, not seek worldly knowledge and worldly gain but devote themselves to the denunciation of the world, to…

— Franz Rosenthal

“Knowledge emerges only through invention and reinvention, the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry beings pursue with the world and with others.”

— Paulo Freire

“Every tyranny in the world lives - and such systems have always lived - in a perpetual struggle against plain knowledge and illuminating discussion.…

— H. G. Wells

“Humankind has accumulated generation upon generation of knowledge, the culmination of which is the vast and useful technological array we see everywhere in modern…

— H.E. Davey

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power

— Bertrand Russell

“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