Sentence examples for a quest for learning from inspiring English sources

He was forever on a quest for learning.

Having received almost no formal education, Lincoln embarked on a quest for learning and self-improvement.

Sam was a unique and gentle combination of intelligence and concern with an insatiable quest for learning and understanding.

With girls in her impoverished Muslim community excluded from a formal education and with her father not earning, she has had to overcome many obstacles in her quest for learning.

It is now more than 15 years since the discovery of the first genes involved in AD, and while we are still on a quest for additional genes, we have learned a lot about the disease.

Angelou's quest for learning and literacy parallels "the central myth of black culture in America": that freedom and literacy are connected.

But he said that he and most of his classmates were motivated by their desire to learn, not by a quest for high grades to show off on a résumé.

Getting it right has been a near-obsession both for Mr. Ayer, who grew up about two miles from here, on West Adams Boulevard, when it was discovering crack cocaine in the 1980s, and for a pair of actors, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña, who are not from the neighborhood but decided to learn it on a quest for purity in the dirtiest of film genres: the L.A. cop drama.

Although bad things happen, including a drug overdose, an LSD freak-out and a rock star's heartless gambling away of his girlfriend, they are portrayed as inevitable learning experiences on a quest for transcendence whose pursuit is worth the risks.

It was a quest for "justice".

It's a quest "for Liberty," apparently.