"I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge."
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"Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge."
"Curiosity is the thirst of the soul."
"I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst."
"The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity."
"Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture."
"The thirst to know and understand a large and liberal discontent."
"Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?"
"A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time."
"Don't seek the water; get thirst."
"I haven't any thirst for revenge."
"We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver."
"If you thirst you may drink."
"What distinguishes success from failures is that the successes constantly thirst for new ideas and knowledge."
"Thirst after body is the great bane of human life."
"The more they drink the more they thirst."
"The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied."
"I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy."
"Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object."