Quote of Gérard de Nerval - The tree of knowledge is not...
Biography - Gérard de Nerval:
French writer and poet.
Born: 1808 - Died: 1855
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1808 - Died: 1855
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
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.
Translation
(French)
See also...
Quotes about life:
Quotes about intelligence:
To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Quotes about ignorance:
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Suppose a man can convince me of error and bring home to me that I am mistaken in thought or act; I shall be glad to alter, for the truth is what I pursue, and no one was ever injured by the truth, whereas he is injured who continues in his own self-deception and ignorance.
Quotes for: knowledge
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Quotes for: tree
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable. A tree does not know itself to be miserable.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Quotes for: generation
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions; so that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another.
Nations do not grow old in the same way that men do. Each generation born within the nation is like a new people.
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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