WordNet
n. curiosity that motivates investigation and study [syn: desire to know, lust for learning]
Usage examples of "thirst for knowledge".
It is a very ancient desire, this thirst for knowledge and power, this hunger to control the secrets of nature, to bring the rain.
Normally I wouldn't dream of taking on someone with no formal qualifications, but to encourage someone with such a thirst for knowledge as you obviously have would be a delight.
He had been very wise, her father, using always her thirst for knowledge to suggest paths which had led her to make her own discoveries, each a new triumph and wonder.
Enqura had well understood the Mezla thirst for knowledge, the Emperor's lust for foreign secrets, and the city's Holy Protector would give them nothing.
My thirst for knowledge was certainly most remarkable, in a boy of my age.
One of these days my thirst for knowledge will be the death of me, and no one, no one is willing to help.