Quotes About Desire

This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.

Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.

The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

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.

The knowledge of evil tempteth to its commission.

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows; he is eager for more knowledge.

When you want knowledge and understanding as badly as you wanted air, you won't have to ask anyone to give it to you.

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.

Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human.

All men by nature desire to know.

It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous but rather the studious way we try to hide them and our desire to act as if they did not exist.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at what I see and what it means what I want and what I fear.

To know oneself means above all to know what one likes

There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.

If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood.

Desiring to excel is not a sin. It is motivation that determines ambition's character. Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation.

Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.

The last thing I want to do is pastor a church Jesus ain't at.

There is no sin in not liking to play; it's a mistake for a boy to be there if he doesn't want to.

Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.

He who is attached to things will suffer much.