The great humanitarian Lowell Bennion wrote that “love of knowing, without the love of learning, leads to dissipation of the mind.”19 In other words, it is not the satisfaction or complacency of knowing as much as the passion and drive of wanting to know that is elevating and ennobling; the first may simply gratify pride or ambition; the second is the motive force behind growth, discovery, and life in its abundance and variety.
