Thirst For Knowledge Quotes

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every acquisition. There was a time when I believed that this alone could constitute the honor of mankind, and I had contempt for the ignorant rabble who know nothing.

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.

My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child’s blindness, added to a student’s thirst for knowledge.

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

It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.

The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

My parents worked really hard at communicating other values they felt were important, such as integrity, courage, humility, treating others with dignity and respect, and having a thirst for knowledge.

My father’s little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.

Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.

Nothing marks a man’s character better than his attraction to intelligence.

The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.

First word [of my father] when I arrived [as a CEO] is, ‘Son, i hope your first deal is a loser, otherwise, you’ll think you’re a lot smarter than you are.’ But he had tremendous values, tremendous integrity, humility, work ethic and terrific thirst for knowledge.

Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

In all ages, through all the varied experience of individuals and nations, knowledge has been the power which has civilized, elevated and dignified humanity. In those countries where progress has been most rapid, the thirst for knowledge has been most intense.