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“All men by nature desire knowledge.”

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Author:Aristotle

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

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Book:The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Source: The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

“The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.”

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Author:William Hazlitt

“It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.”

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Author:Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause, or when the cause of the particular effect is one that exceeds his power of understanding. Hence, wonder is a cause of pleasure insofar as there is annexed the hope of attaining understanding of that which one wants to know. ... For desire is especially aroused by the awareness of ignorance, and consequently a man takes the greatest pleasure in those things which he discovers for himself or learns from the ground up.”

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

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Book:Remembrance of Things Past

Source: Remembrance of Things Past