Root Quotes

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. (Plato)
Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it. View quote
Henry Fielding
For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world. View quote
Max Born
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. View quote
Plutarch
To know and love another human being is the root of all wisdom. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. View quote
Norman Mailer
Lack of money is the root of all evil. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? View quote
Ayn Rand
Radical simply means "grasping things at the root." (Angela Davis)
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. View quote
James Tobin
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. View quote
George Washington
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot. View quote
Thomas Moore
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. View quote
William Wordsworth
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
Righteousness is the root of happiness. View quote
Chanakya
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
Premature optimization is the root of all evil. (Donald Knuth)
The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars. View quote
Octavia Butler
Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes. View quote
Maynard James Keenan
Irrationality is the square root of all evil. View quote
Douglas Hofstadter
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. View quote
Francis Bacon