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  • Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was so little of it. I replied that it was even less fitting for a man to possess ignorance because there was so much of it.

    Ignorance   Men   Desire  
  • 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 annexed the hope of attaining understanding of that which one wants to know. ... For desire is especially aroused by the awareness of ignorance, and consequently a man takes the greatest pleasure in those things which he discovers for himself or learns from the ground up.

  • The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

    Men   Desire   Shapes  
    Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.118, Penguin
  • Love is desire for knowledge.

    Cesare Pavese (2017). “This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950”, p.245, Routledge
  • Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

    Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
  • The starting point of all achievement is desire.

    Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.142, Penguin
  • My father... never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before learning to read, my greatest pleasure was to listen to passages from Buffon's natural history. I constantly requested him to read me the history of animals and birds.

    Father   Animal   Bird  
  • The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

    Science   Men   Discovery  
    Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.239, Courier Corporation
  • All men by nature desire knowledge.

    "Metaphysics". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 980a.21,
  • If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.

    Children   School   Ideas  
    Richard Livingstone (2013). “On Education”, p.29, Cambridge University Press
  • The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.

    Struggle   Men   Average  
  • Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.

    Goal   Humanity   Desire  
  • The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.

    1829 In The Atlas, 15 Feb.
  • There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that mankind should be happy; it needs the desire for knowledge and the determination to eschew pleasant myths; it needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.

    Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.520, Psychology Press
  • Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and desire recognition of their wisdom. But there are many matters, knowledge of which brings little or no advantage to the soul.

    Men   Anxiety   Soul  
  • Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.... If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

    Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2013). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913”, p.463, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

  • It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.

    Frankenstein ch. 2 (1818)
  • Ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the underlying order in the world. Today we still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.

    Stephen W. Hawking (1990). “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes”, Bantam
  • [I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed herself to be carried away and eat the forbidden fruit. But Adam was not moved by this desire for knowledge, but simply by greed: he ate it because he heard Eve say it tasted good.

    Evil   Greed   Mind  
    Moderata (Modesta Pozzo) Fonte (2007). “The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men”, p.94, University of Chicago Press
  • Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.

    Religious   Loss   Men  
    W. S. F. Pickering, Emile Durkheim (2011). “Durkheim on Religion: A Selection of Readings with Bibliographies and Introductory Remarks”, p.55, Casemate Publishers
  • 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, about his environment and the forces by which he is surrounded, gives life its meaning and purpose, and clothes it with final dignity.... And yet we know, deep in our hearts, that knowledge is not enough.... Unless we can anchor our knowledge to moral purposes, the ultimate result will be dust and ashes- dust and ashes that will bury the hopes and monuments of men beyond recovery.

    Life   Heart   Recovery  
  • [Science is] the desire to know causes.

    Science   Desire   Causes  
    1829 In The Atlas, 15 Feb.
  • A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

    Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.99, Penguin
  • I think a part of evolution is the desire to know yourself, and know the world you live in, and discover everything you can about the world you live in. That world can be the microcosm of your own emotions, or a society, or the cosmos. There's this constant desire for knowledge.

    Source: www.achievement.org
  • Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

    Plato   Desire   Three  
  • My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the fumes, call it, of that divine nectar, to bear my head through atmospheres and over heights unknown to my feet, is perennial and constant.

    Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.26, Courier Corporation
  • I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

    Men   Medicine   Long  
  • Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire for knowledge. And the answers he received to the questions, "Where do I come from?", "What is man?", although they made him poorer by a few illusions, gave him in compensation a knowledge of his past that is vaster than he could ever have dreamed. For it emerged that the history of life was his history too.

    Men   Past   Desire  
  • The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

    Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.65
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