Knowledge Desire Quotes

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

All men desire by nature to know.

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.

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.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

Therein lies the greatness of man. Fear is never allowed to dominate that desire for greater knowledge and as long as mankind retains that spirit we will move forward.

Kant ... was also quite aware that "the urgent need" of reason is both different from and "more than mere quest and desire for knowledge." Hence, the distinguishing of the two faculties, reason and intellect, coincides with a distinction between two altogether different mental activities, thinking and knowing.