Leonardo da Vinci Quote - Liberty Quotes Blog

"The desire to know is natural to good men."

by:	Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Italian inventor, artist, polymath, the "Universal Genius" or "Renaissance Man"
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Categories:	Education, Knowledge, Goodness
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-- Anonymous, kuwait
I say that the desire to know is natural to All men.It is a human characteristic to want to know more.My opinion anyway. -- me again
The desire to know by bad men is undesirable -- RobertSRQ 1
;-) -- Mike, Norwalk
Maybe this is a chicken and egg thing. Desiring to know, (one must have an open mind) might make men good. Having a closed mind, desiring not to know might make men bad. -- Waffler, Smith, Arkansas
-- E Archer, NYC
Knowledge can be a very dangerous thing in the minds of bad men. -- Ken, Allyn, WA 1
And likewise, being satisfied with believing is natural to lazy and dull people... -- Anonymous, Reston, VA US
-- jim k, Austin
Good men want to know; crooked lefty wants to believe Fake News and ridicule knowledgeable dirt diggers as conspiracy nuts. Also, although good men want to know, I have met a considerable ratio of those who are AFRAID of too much information; a hobbled mind is the bane of enlightened mankind (although religion and political profiteers love small minds and hobbles). -- Mark W, Aurora Colorado 1
THROUGH DESIRE, a man having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom. A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. Proverbs 18 -- Ronw13, OR