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

    Knowledge   Tree   Guilt  
    Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.11, New Directions Publishing
  • Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

    Clarence Darrow's remarks at a debate with religious leaders in Kansas City, as quoted in a Emanuel Haldeman-Julius' eulogy for Clarence Darrow, 1938.
  • Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by an inquisitive urge. By noticing relationships in the results of his observations, he attempts to order and to explain the infinite variety of phenomena that at first sight may appear to be chaotic.

    Science   Men   Fire  
    "The Scientific Character of Geology". The Journal of Geology, Vol. 69, No. 4, p. 454, July 1961.
  • 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.

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

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

  • Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.

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

    Knowing   Tree   Grew  
    1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.218-24.
  • Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

    Life   Wisdom   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.

    Smart   Apples   Tree  
  • 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.

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

  • I'd like to briefly state the accomplishment that we expect from a photographer. He must make the person being photographed forget that he has eaten from the tree of knowledge.

    Albert Renger-Patzsch, Donald Burton Kuspit, J. Paul Getty Museum (1993). “Albert Renger-Patzsch: joy before the object”, Getty Publications
  • Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

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

    Adventure   Tree   Fruit  
    Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4373, Delphi Classics
  • Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in the poetic imagination; knowledge, on the other hand, originates in the reasoning intelligence of man. Science has to pluck the blessed fruits from the tree of knowledge, unconcerned whether these conquests trench upon the poetical imaginings of faith or not.

    Faith   Art   Blessed  
    Ernst Haeckel (1887). “The History of Creation, Or, The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes: A Popular Exposition of the Doctrine of Evolution in General, and of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in Particular”
  • 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.

    Knowledge   Roots   Tree  
  • 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.

    Struggle   Moving   Fate  
    Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.84, Lulu Press, Inc
  • One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

    1798 'The Tables Turned', stanzas 6-8.
  • The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

    Henry David Thoreau (1862). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. By Henry D. Thoreau”, p.381
  • The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

    Tree   Jehovah   Fruit  
  • The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.

    Fall   Sobriety   Tree  
    Agnes Repplier (1916). “Counter-Currents”
  • "One impulse from a vernal wood

    Nature   Tree   Woods  
    1798 'The Tables Turned', stanzas 6-8.
  • 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!

    Ignorance   Eden   Giving  
    Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.18, Library of Alexandria
  • The fruits of the tree of Knowledge are various; he must be strong indeed who can digest all of them.

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

    Boys   Tree   Looks  
  • 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.

    Apples   Tree   Fruit  
    Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.446, BookCaps Study Guides
  • The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.

    Racism   Tree   Racist  
  • Surely you're not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! It's there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two trees - knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge and you will surely die. You eat of the tree of life and you remain a child in the garden forever, undying.

    Children   Garden   Two  
    Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.145, Macmillan
  • I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.

    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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