Desire to Learn Quotes

My inspiration is really very simple: I'm struck by things that I want to know more about. I really do react just as a curious person: who is this person? What's the story behind this situation? Why do people like this or dislike this thing?

I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything.

I didn't go to college. I got tired of it. I didn't want to take ballroom dance taught by a former drill sergeant in the WACs. I didn't like flunking speech, me, flunking speech. But I realized sometime later, okay, I don't have a piece of paper that says I've been educated, so I'm gonna have to be able to demonstrate that I'm educated. So I began self-teaching. It was all related to desire.

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.

I was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read at a school for girls we call the Amigas. Affection, and mischief, caused me to follow her, and when I observed how she was being taught her lessons I was so inflamed with the desire to know how to read, that deceiving - for so I knew it to be - the mistress, I told her that my mother had meant for me to have lessons too. ... I learned so quickly that before my mother knew of it I could already read.

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to look for things that haven’t been presented to you, then, maybe. I think that “intellectual” is quite an exclusive word. I think it’s just for anyone that has a thirst or a hunger to improve themselves, or a yearning to escape from somewhere to get to a better place.

I just have a gut feeling about something, if I really want to do it, if I'm excited about it, if I want to explore it. And that goes across all different sorts of genres.

Education is not something where you just tip your head and they pour it in your ear. You’ve got to want it.

The beauty of me is I'm always going to ask. I'll never not ask.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream.

I don't cook, but I would love to learn.

The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.

I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.

It is much better to want a teacher than to want the desire to learn.

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.

True learning takes energy, passion and a burning desire.

Of course I wanted to know. I was a writer. I wanted to know everything.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

We covet experience; we have a secret desire to learn, not from cold prohibition, but from trial, whether those things, which are not without a semblance of good, are really so ill as they are described to us.

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.