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Quotes About Knowledge

The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.
~ Jill Lepore
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
~ John Dryden
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
A fool does not see the same trees a wise man sees.
~ Rick Hilles
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
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
All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.
~ Lynda Barry
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.
~ Francis Bacon
The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.
~ John Milton
A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?
~ Richard Louv
The tree of knowledge of good and evil.
~ Bible
I know my limitations. I know I'm not perfect. I know what I know, but more importantly, I know what I don't know. When I don't know something, I surround myself with people I can trust to teach me.
~ Brock Lesnar
When I don't know something, I surround myself with people I can trust to teach me.
~ Brock Lesnar
No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it.
~ Konosuke Matsushita
Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.
~ John Ortberg
Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
~ Joyce Brothers
The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more child-like will be our faith
~ John Gresham Machen
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.
~ Umberto Eco
Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.
~ Thomas Szasz
Never trust anybody with only one book.
~ Billy Connolly
Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.
~ Robert C. Solomon