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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.”

Two Truth Freedom Knowledge Tree Fruit Confused Truth Of Life Probability Facility Owing Tree Of Life Tree Of Knowledge

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.”

Action Knowledge Tests Fruit Devotion Being True Renunciation

Book:Gandhi: Selected Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings

“Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.”

Writing Found Language Knowledge Fruit

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“What does cookery mean? It means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe, and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits, and balms and spices... It means the economy of your great-grandmother and the science of modern chemistry, and French art, and Arabian hospitality. It means, in fine, that you are to see imperatively that everyone has something nice to eat.”

Mean Doe Art Knowledge Economy Nice Modern Food Fine Cooking Fruit Grandmother Culinary Chemistry Hospitality Spices Herbs Cookery Arabian Great Grandmother Calypso Medea

Author:John Ruskin

“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”

“Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.”

Thinking Matter Forget Knowledge Bears Conversation Fruit Consideration

Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“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.”

Men Knowledge Tree Fool Fruit Paradise Abode Tree Of Knowledge

Author:William Ralph Inge

“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.”

Source: 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

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

Strong Knowledge Tree Fruit Various Tree Of Knowledge

Author:Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

“They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'”

Knows Firsts Together Science Knowledge Fruit Tongue Temples Dedicated Dedication Maxims Apollo

Author:Plato

“It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves.”

May Has Beens Enjoy Views Knowledge Discovery Standing Fruit Shoulders Observation Former Giants Self Knowledge Comprehensive Forefathers Dwarfs Dwarves Uniting

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.”

Firsts Children Doe Soul Desire Heaven Water Moral Knowledge Drink Taste Intellectual Garden Fruit Delicious Glimpse

Book:Slavery

Source: Slavery

“Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge. . . and the longest life is too short.”

Source: The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu