A yearner for knowledge.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used without object) : to yearn for a quiet vacation. ,They yearned over their delicate child.    From Dictionary.com. 

But he is really a conservative, a yearner after the good old days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brief Encounter] Reference

He was not the yearner: he was the artist, sure of his vision.    From Wordnik.com.  [Main Street] Reference

Jimmy says the butcher is a good yearner too, but he does it by going red in the face and trying to burst his collar with his neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916] Reference

The Young Hungarian Nobleman, whose remittances have been stopped by the war, is reminiscent of the original yearner for the idyllic life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 2nd, 1914] Reference

Jimmy says Faithful kept yearning to go back and help; he is a good yearner, Jimmy says, and he does it by pushing his head through the collar as far as he can stretch it, and then choking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916] Reference

This "Grey Gardens" (Saturday at 8 p.m. on HBO) boasts immersive performances by Jessica Lange, as the larger-than-life mother keeping her daughter close, and Drew Barrymore, as the flamboyant yearner idling in her gilded cage.    From Wordnik.com.  [PopMatters] Reference

This '' Grey Gardens '' (9 p.m. Saturday on HBO) boasts immersive performances by Jessica Lange, as the larger-than-life mother keeping her daughter close, and Drew Barrymore, as the flamboyant yearner idling in her gilded cage.    From Wordnik.com.  [News/local from www.chieftain.com] Reference

It was even more to her than is the art-school to the yearner who has always believed that she has a talent for painting; for the yearner has, even as a child, been able to draw and daub and revel in the results; while for Una this was the first time in her life when her labor seemed to count for something.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Job An American Novel] Reference

Why, my dear, he's the most sentimental yearner in town! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Main Street] Reference

Why, my dear, he’s the most sentimental yearner in town!”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Main Street] Reference

A yearner for Yeti.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

The yearner position suggests an open nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 17, 2003] Reference

I'm a yearner. previous next new - old - mail.    From Wordnik.com.  [partygirl Diary Entry] Reference

Elmusa is a true poet, a yearner for a better life and for the constancy of time. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Palestine Blogs aggregator] Reference

O thou yearner after Truth!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas] Reference

O thou yearner after the Truth!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas] Reference

O thou yearner after the Kingdom!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bahá’í World Faith] Reference

“O thou yearner after Truth! ...”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas] Reference

“O thou yearner after the Truth! ...”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas] Reference

“O thou yearner after the Kingdom! ...”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas] Reference