The thirst for knowledge is like a piece of ass you know you shouldn't chase; in the end, you chase it just the same.
Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently the conditions of happiness are mine.
Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.
His desire for wisdom, more than anything else, together with the nobility of his birth, characterized the nature of his noble mind.
An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the in the centre of the Library here and think despairingly how impossible it is ever to become possessed of all the wealth of facts and ideas contained in the books surrounding me on every hand.
We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
