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All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. – Plato
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old. – Charles Caleb Colton
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. – Robertson Davies
How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other! – Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Chapter 19
A child is the root of the heart. – Maria de Jesus
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. – Johann von Goethe
All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery. – Shelley
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. – James F. Clarke
Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public. – Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
Etymology, n.: Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term "etymology" was formed from the Latin "etus" ("eaten"), the root "mal" ("bad"), and "logy" ("study of"). It meant "the study of things that are hard to swallow." – Mike Kellen
Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let things take their course without troubling over details. Such indifference is the root of all evil. – I Ching
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. – Kierkegaard
For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root. – Henry Thoreau
He that would build lastingly must lay his foundation low. The proud man, like the early shoots of a new-felled coppice, thrusts out full of sap, green in leaves, and fresh in colour, but bruises and breaks with every wind, is nipped with every little cold, and, being top-heavy, is wholly unfit for use. Whereas the humble man retains it in the root, can abide the winter?s killing blast, the ruffling concussions of the wind, and can endure far more than that which appears so flourishing. – Feltham
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold. – William Wordsworth
It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. – Samuel Butler
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
Lack of money is the root of all evil. – George Bernard Shaw
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. – Carl Sandburg
Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It's the only one though that we'll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral. – Andrew Schneider
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings. – Carl Sandburg

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