
“Wonder is the desire of knowledge.”
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, pp. 106–107
“Wonder is the desire of knowledge.”
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, pp. 68–69
The Aquinas quote cited — "The reason why the philosopher can be compared to the poet is that both are concerned with wonder" — is the epigraph of "The Philosophical Act".
Principle attributed to Popper by Ryszard Kapiscinski in New York Times obituary, 1995.
Misattributed
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/01/magazine/lives-well-lived-karl-popper-the-philosopher-as-giantslayer.html
Walter W. Powell and Kaisa Snellman. "The knowledge economy." Annu. Rev. Sociol. 30 (2004): 199-220.
Press Briefing, June 29, 2009 http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Briefing-by-White-House-Press-Secretary-Robert-Gibbs-6-29-09/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTmkB3NUL6Y
“Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.”
"Ennui" (1830), p. 48
Literary and Historical Miscellanies (1855)
“There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge.”