Two Ways of Knowledge

Every once in a blue moon, I read something that just makes my soul cry, "yes!" Here is the quote of the day from Thomas Aquinas:

"There are two ways of desiring knowledge. One way is to desire it as a perfection of oneself; and that is the way the philosophers desire it. The other is to desire it not [merely] as a perfection of oneself, but because through this knowledge the one we love becomes present to us; and that is the way saints desire it."

I desire to be a saint rather than a philosopher.