773 Quotes About Roots

There’s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].

I know I'm not going to understand women. I'll never understand how you can take boiling hot wax, pour it onto your upper thigh, rip the hair out by the root, and still be afraid of a spider.

Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.

First, in your sermons, use your logic, and then your rhetoric; Rhetoric without logic, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are caught with fine expressions when they understand not reason.

Socialism never took root in America.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch.