Mental Hunger Quotes

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

The teacher's task is not a small easy one! She has to prepare a huge amount of knowledge to satisfy the child's mental hunger. She is not like the ordinary teacher, limited by a syllabus. The needs of the child are clearly more difficult to answer.

Hunger, she often tells me, has nothing to do with the belly and everything to do with the mind. What Mary really runs isn't a bakery, but a community.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

A fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.

Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall.

[B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if our mind growled like our stomach does when it is hungry?