Top 100 Tree Of Quotes
#1. In yoga . . . many may take one path as a key in order to experience self-realisation while others take another path, but I say that there is absolutely no difference between the various practices of yoga." - B. K. S. Iyengar, The Tree of Yoga, p. 15
Georg Feuerstein
#2. Spring Tree of Brattleboro, Vermont does not use it. This is the kind I recommend.
Various
#3. I have no religion, for I have spent too many years eating from the tree of knowledge.
Mignon Ariel King
#4. We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
#5. The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.
Paul Kurtz
#8. I think we all do our own thing and we all have our own talents, but it's good to know that you have a family tree of success so if you need the help on your journey to success then you can look around and see it around you.
Tyga
#9. E need more love than we deserve ... has God not indeed shown us his greatest love precisely when we deserved it least from the tree of Eden to the tree of Calvary and beyond?
Joseph Langford
#10. You can be so much in a room that the world outside turns to water. You've got the heater blowing out burnt air, but you still don't get warm. Your ankles are singed, but your head's in a bucket of ice. Time drips like a stalactite. The water for the coffee boils away in a tree of steam.
Iain Sinclair
#11. The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
Alan Kay
#12. Let the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil fall, soundless in the moldering woods.
Rudy Rucker
#13. Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.
Sathya Sai Baba
#14. If you are willing to go out on a limb, the tree of life holds endless possibilities.
Angel Sharum
#16. I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.
Albert Einstein
#17. Every civilization is a fruit from the sturdy tree of barbarism, and falls at the greatest distance from its trunk.
Will Durant
#18. The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#19. Can someone eat the fruit that comes from the tree of action that grows from the seeds of your mind?
Eugene J. Martin
#20. The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.
Lynda Barry
#21. 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
#22. There's never been a better time to let the leaves of mediocrity fall from your tree of life.
David Ault
#23. The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three seconds. Of course, this is how a child thinks of his mother.
Paul Auster
#24. He is entering through the darkest passage of my heart, without even knocking at the door. A tree of forbidden fruit, walking down close to tempt me.
Samreen Ahsan
#25. The Mandrake is the "Tree of Knowledge" and the burning love ignited by its pleasure is the origin of the human race
Hugo Rahner
#26. The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also, to do justice to the Tree of Liberty by an exhibition of the fine fruits we gather from it.
James Madison
#27. Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#28. We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain over the flood, cowering in the last branches of the tree of our life.
D.H. Lawrence
#29. ...nothing is taken that cannot be found again... (Tree of Life)
Elita Daniels
#30. The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, What a dust do I raise!
Aesop
#31. Emperor, king, general, duke," he whispered to himself. "These are just labels. Climb up the family tree of any of them high enough and you'll find a commoner who dared to take a chance.
Ken Liu
#32. Being preoccupied with our self-image is like being deaf and blind. It's like standing in the middle of a vast field of wildflowers with a black hood over our heads. It's like coming upon a tree of singing birds while wearing earplugs.
Pema Chodron
#33. Jesus took the tree of death so you could have the tree of life.
Timothy Keller
#34. Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.
Donald Miller
#35. Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?
Richard Bach
#36. I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.
Alicia Vikander
#37. 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
#38. Happiness branches from the tree of kindness, abounding with the fruit of sweet smiles.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#39. Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
Albert Einstein
#40. Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
George Gordon Byron
#41. The giant oak tree of a story, started with a small acorn of a thought.
-T.A. Cline
T.A. Cline
#42. The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson
#43. 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 G. Ingersoll
#44. Yahweh - a jealous god, who would hold men to himself and who turned mankind away from the Tree of Immortality, instead of leading us to it. Such a god in the Orient would be regarded as a deluding idol.
Joseph Campbell
#45. Somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time .
R.S. Thomas
#47. Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.
Martin Fleischmann
#49. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of r the tree of life, which is in s the paradise of God.
Anonymous
#50. Hope deferred makes the heart sick, h but a desire fulfilled is i a tree of life.
Anonymous
#51. Foy was no Tree of Knowledge, at most he was a Bush of Opinion
Paul Beatty
#53. Like Eve, you're so quick to eat from the tree of knowledge.
E.L. James
#54. A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.
Henry Ward Beecher
#55. We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.
Franz Kafka
#56. The tree of life knows that, whatever happens, the warm music spinning around it will never stop. However much death may come, however much blood may flow, the music will dance men and women as long as the air breaths them and the land plows and loves them.
Eduardo Galeano
#57. Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree of life. Such were the intervals between the ancient and mediaeval time, the mediaeval and the modern.
George Edward Woodberry
#58. People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn't take their fancy. The serpent is forever enticing them to come to him, to the tree of mystery. They must have the forbidden fruit, or paradise will not be paradise for them.
Alexander Pushkin
#59. I guarantee that the seed you plant in love, not matter how small, will grow into a mighty tree of refuge. We all want a future for ourselves and we must now care enough to create, nurture and secure a future for our children.
Afeni Shakur
#60. The tree of life is already doomed from the moment it is planted.
Tan Twan Eng
#61. 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.
Agnes Repplier
#62. Yellow leaves hang on your tree of life. The messengers of death are waiting. You are going to travel far away. Have you any provisions for the journey?
Anonymous
#63. The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.
Bertrand Barere
#64. He was less like a tree of knowledge and more like a bush of opinions." From the book "The Sellout
Paul Beatty
#66. Does that mean", I said in some bewilderment, "that we must eat again of the tree of knowledge in order to return to the state of innocence?"
"Of course", he said, "but that's the final chapter in the history of the world.
Heinrich Von Kleist
#67. Our tree is actually a tree of the short-term interest rate. The average direction in which the short-term interest rate moves depends on the level of the rate. When the rate is very high, that direction is downward; when the rate is very low, it is upward.
John Hull
#68. No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens ... spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon.
Guy Debord
#69. To be sure about nonsense he had to be able to classify it, assign it to a family tree of liberal nonsense, humanist-humanitarian nonsense, academic nonsense, Protestant nonsense, Freudian nonsense and so on.
Kingsley Amis
#71. Well, what should I have done? Counted every tree?" "Of course, they must be counted. You didn't count them, but Ryabinin did. Ryabinin's children will have means of livelihood and education, while yours maybe will not!
Leo Tolstoy
#72. The fact that the prohibited tree was placed in the center of the garden, right next to the Tree of Life (Gen. 2:9), symbolizes that the life that God intends for us revolves around our honoring God's prohibition as much as trusting God for his provision.The
Gregory A. Boyd
#73. Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
William Blake
#74. 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.
Orson Scott Card
#75. 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
#76. Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Henry Miller
#77. Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#78. While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
Martial
#79. The scythers, Time and Death,
Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath
Robert Lowell
#80. The family trees of all of us, of whatever origin or trait, must meet and merge into one genetic tree of all humanity by the time they have spread into our ancestries for about 50 generations.
Guy Murchie
#81. Today here and now, at the age of four, we eat from the tree of knowledge and have fallen from grace.
Osho
#82. I mean, when the British burned down the White House in the war of 1812, did we plant a "Tree of Remembrance" in the ashes, or did we get busy rebuilding?
Brian K. Vaughan
#83. 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
#84. Only bad religions depend on mysteries, just as bad governments depend on secret police.
A character's response to a discussion about eating from the tree of knowledge.
Alasdair Gray
#85. A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in the race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.
Kate Millett
#86. The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: "Adventures are to the adventurous."
Benjamin Disraeli
#87. And they will return one day knowing the miracle of the heavens and of all the world. God knew what he was doing when he drew their attention to the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If he hadn't wanted them to eat it, he would never have mentioned it.
Paulo Coelho
#88. In brief, the Tree of Life is a compendium of science, psychology, philosophy and theology.
Dion Fortune
#89. Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
A. E. Waite
#90. Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky!
Saadi
#91. Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.
Aaron Hill
#92. It makes sense that the placenta almost looks like a tree with many branches - a tree of life.
Ricki Lake
#93. Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which the foundations of the affections are undermined; and a lump of soot, which, falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavor.
Giambattista Basile
#94. The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.
John Milton
#95. I'd say that 'Tree of Life' is not a Christian so much as a spiritual film.
Brad Pitt
#97. This is perhaps what has made some suspect that the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was really a banana.
Jane Grigson
#98. Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.
George Gordon Byron
#99. We are in our own dark Eden where the snake is not selling the Tree of Knowledge. He is selling love, and if you take a bite of that apple, you will go the way of Abel when this is clearly the land of Cain.
Shane Kuhn
