desire to know

Noun

Meaning

curiosity that motivates investigation and study

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

curiosity lust for learning

Hypernyms

wonder curiosity

Examples

All men by nature desire to know. Aristotle

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics. Henri Poincaré

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

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more. Louis L'Amour

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul. Ambrose Bierce

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know. Bertrand Russell

Close letter words and terms

desire to be on one's own desire to be out in the open desire to get married desire to live desire to live alone desire to travel