Quotes About Knowledge

For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

Just imagine if you took all the money you've spent on these things and traveled around the world with it, instead, or bought books and read them. Think about how much you would know about life.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!

Old men and far travellers may lie with authority.

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.

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

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.

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

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

I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.

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

If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are able to paint that tree with more conviction, even if done with a few broad strokes.

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

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

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.

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

Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces, which is what the thinking mind does.

We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss the meaning and grandeur of the forest they compose.

Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.

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!

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.