Desire For Knowledge Quotes

• All men by nature desire knowledge.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

  "Metaphysics". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 980a.21,

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• The starting point of all achievement is desire.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.142, Penguin

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  Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

  Plato

  Plato, Desire, Three

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

  Laurence Sterne

  Motivational, Education, Business

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

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• A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

  Ayn Rand

  Motivational, Dance, Teamwork

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.99, Penguin

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

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Knowledge, Science, Heaven

  Frankenstein ch. 2 (1818)

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

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Men, Discovery

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.239, Courier Corporation

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

  Will Durant

  Education, Knowledge, Eye

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• [Science is] the desire to know causes.

  William Hazlitt

  Science, Desire, Causes

  1829 In The Atlas, 15 Feb.

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• 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.

  William Hazlitt

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  1829 In The Atlas, 15 Feb.

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• The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Men, Desire, Shapes

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.118, Penguin

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• 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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Goal, Humanity, Desire

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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.

  Christine de Pizan

  Ignorance, Men, Desire

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• The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.

  Marcel Proust

  Knowledge, Desire, Tiny

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.236, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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.

  Ernst Mach

  Struggle, Men, Average

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• 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

  Passion, Winter, Journey

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2013). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913”, p.463, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The two explorers are given fictional names. But as in real life, they travel to the Amazon roughly a generation apart, in the early-to-mid 20th century. In the film, they're both guided by Karamakate, as a young man early in the story and later as an old shaman. He and the outsiders share a desire for knowledge - self knowledge and an understanding of the world around them, says the film's co-screenwriter, Jacques Toulemonde.

  Tom Cole

  Real, Men, Self

  "'Serpent' Film Explores, Revives Lost Cultural Knowledge For Colombians". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Tom Cole, www.npr.org. February 21, 2016.

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• 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.

  Raymond B. Fosdick

  Life, Heart, Recovery

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• Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really grasped and yet always flying before them, becomes at once their sole torment and their sole happiness. Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery which is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

  Claude Bernard

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.239, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Richard Livingstone

  Children, School, Ideas

  Richard Livingstone (2013). “On Education”, p.29, Cambridge University Press

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• 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

  Feet, Atmosphere, Desire

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Desire, Philosopher

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• 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.

  Audra McDonald

  Thinking, Desire, Cosmos

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard

  Expression, Giving, Desire

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1937). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913”, p.542, Library of Alexandria

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• My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before,—a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophy, Feet, Discovery

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking”, p.26, Sheba Blake Publishing

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