Root Quotes

Expectation is the root of all heartache.
William Shakespeare

The lack of money is the root of all evil.
Mark Twain

Money, Evil, Lack

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau

Evil, Thousand, Hacking

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
Chanakya

Family, Fear, Happy

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Plato

Ignorance, Evil, Stem

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom, Goodness

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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Knowledge, Doubt, Rather

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.
Michael Jackson

Love, Money, Power

Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw

Money, Evil, Lack

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
George Washington

Liberty, Growth, Begins

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw

Love, Economy, Virtue

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
Ayn Rand

Money, Evil, Asked

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard

Evil, Boredom, Oneself

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The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
Bodhidharma

Mind, Everything, Understand

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Plato

Tyrant, Appears, Protector

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
George Washington Carver

Fear, Hate, Others

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
Soren Kierkegaard

Evil, Human, Bored

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.
Alveda King

Someone, Human, Person

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Albert Schweitzer

Living, Compassion, Ethics

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Soren Kierkegaard

Good, True, Evil

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Everything, Thought, Flower

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.
Carl Jung

Life, Heart, Become

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

True, Long, Last

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
Dick Gregory

Great, History, Victory

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Francis Bacon

Men, Observe, Hits

Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?
Paul Ryan

Through, Poverty, Interested

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Plutarch

Education, Good, Lie

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Religion, Art, Spring

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Samuel Butler

Love, Money, Evil

The want of money is the root of all evil.
Samuel Butler

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