The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

As writers become more numerous it is natural for readers to become more indolent whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

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

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

There is one quality which one must possess to win and that is definiteness of purpose the knowledge of what one wants and a burning desire to possess it.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.