Honore de Balzac Quotes

There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)

The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

It is a glorious fever, desire to know.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.

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

Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.

The things we like best are either illegal, immoral or fattening.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

Desire , to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man ; so that Man is distinguished, not only by his Reason; but also by this singular Passion from other Animals ; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of Sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a Lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of Knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal Pleasure.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.