Tree Of Knowledge Quotes

• Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Wisdom, Tree

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• Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself

  Albert Einstein

  School, Tree, Ladders

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• The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

  Arthur Miller

  Apples, Tree, Stuck

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.206, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Tree, Paradise

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.80, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on.

  Frank Zappa

  Atheist, Garden, Essence

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• A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

  Marcus Garvey

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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• I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Tree, Enough

  Albert Einstein, Max Born, Hedwig Born (1971). “The Born-Einstein letters: correspondence between Albert Einstein and Max and Hedwig Born from 1916-1955, with commentaries by Max Born”, Macmillan _

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• The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Adventure, Tree, Fruit

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4373, Delphi Classics

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• The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

  Moliere

  Inspirational, Success, Patience

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• One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Educational, Men

  1798 'The Tables Turned', stanzas 6-8.

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• We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

  Franz Kafka

  Tree, Guilt, States

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.

  William Ralph Inge

  Knowledge, Men, Tree

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• The fruits of the tree of Knowledge are various; he must be strong indeed who can digest all of them.

  Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

  Strong, Knowledge, Tree

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• Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Ignorance, Eden, Giving

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

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• Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

  Henry Miller

  Knowledge, Tree, Guilt

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

  Lucy Stone

  Healing, Tree, Nations

  "The Progress of Fifty Years". Speech at the Congress of Women at the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair), Chicago, Illinois, digital.library.upenn.edu. 1893.

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• The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Evil

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• Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Freedom, Confused

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• The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. You eat this apple, you're going to be as smart as God. We can't have that.

  Frank Zappa

  Smart, Ideas, Apples

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• The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Evil, Tree, Good And Evil

  Henry David Thoreau (1862). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. By Henry D. Thoreau”, p.381

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• He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

  Victor Hugo

  Apples, Tree, Fruit

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.446, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The Mandrake is the "Tree of Knowledge" and the burning love ignited by its pleasure is the origin of the human race

  Hugo Rahner

  Race, Tree, Burning

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• You look like a boy who has eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge and doesn't like the taste.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Boys, Tree, Looks

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• The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

  John Milton

  Knowing, Tree, Grew

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.218-24.

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• The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life and the universe can never be the products of increasing empirical knowledge, and that the highest ideals, which move us most forcefully, are always formed only in the struggle with other ideals which are just as sacred to others as ours are to us.

  Max Weber

  Struggle, Moving, Fate

  Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.84, Lulu Press, Inc

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