Becoming Quote by Wayne Dyer

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

Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.

— Samuel Johnson

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying…

— Ralph Cudworth

The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers and the…

— Jürgen Moltmann

Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Desire , to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man ; so that Man is distinguished, not…

— Thomas Hobbes

Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head…

— William H. Gass

“All desires originate to seek betterment unconsciously. In awareness, the same desires dissolve into realization.”

— Gian Kumar

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

— Will Durant

Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.

— Lionel Shriver

Knowing yourself has to always come from within. The outside can inspire or guide you, but knowing has to come from within you.

— Jaggi Vasudev