Quotes on Thirst For Knowledge

Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips is really not any thirst for knowledge, but simply a yearning for adventure. ... A Polar explorer always talks grandly of sacrificing his fingers and toes to science. It is an amiable pretention, but there is no need to take it seriously.

The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.