(369 quotes found)
“Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.”
William Irwin Thompson
“Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.”
Mencius
“As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.”
Daniel Defoe
“There are only two lasting bequests we can give our children... one is roots, the other wings.”
Contributed by: George Lewis
Stephen Covey
“Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends.”
Chu Hsi
“. . . it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself; it is needful that you frame the season of your own harvest.”
William Shakespeare
“Like many who feel exiled, it is a primal requirement to return to your roots. And this project has built that bridge for me.”
Amir Khan
“I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.”
Claude Shannon
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
Aristotle
“Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.”
William Law
