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

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil.
CRISS JAMI
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommend...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
If money is the root of all evil, then China's manipulation of its currency, the yuan, is the ta...
PETER NAVARRO
What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, env...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil: env...
BUDDHA
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
If we tempt fate we can go over like a roller coaster coming to the end of its tracks.Fate has its o...
GARY F EVANS...
Indifference to the wonder of being is the root of all sin.
ABRAHAM HESCHEL
Love of money is the root of all evil and the love of food is the root of all disease.
DR HITESH C SHETH
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
DANIEL DEFOE
Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
WILLIAM PENN
Shirking and sharking, in all their many varieties, have been sown broadcast by the ill-fated cause;...
CHARLES DICKENS
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
PLATO
I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
PATRICIA CORNWELL
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
SENECA
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmon...
SENECA
The beauty of women is the root of all evil, it makes men lose their minds
JESUS BARRAZA
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more cert...
HANNAH MORE
Lack of humility leads to feeling 'i am', that is, egoism or self-centredness which is considered no...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is i...
BODHIDHARMA
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES
If money is the root of all evil, then why do we make it?
STEVEN ESPINOSA
Give a human being power, and he will think that he can control the whole world! This is the true ro...
PHILIP T. M.
Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the ...
MICHAEL JACKSON
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
MARK TWAIN
The love of evil is the root of all money.
AMERICAN PROVERB
The want of money is the root of all evil.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The love of money is the root of all evil.
BIBLE
The love of evil is the root of all money.
PROVERB
The love of money is the root of all evil.
BIBLE, 1 TIMOTHY 6:10
Love of the world is the root of all evil
MUHAMMAD
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Not having money is the root of all evil..
OLASOT
Overpowered by the sadness of not knowing what there is in the world, and what I'm doing. Fee...
JACK KEROUAC
People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI
You take us over the course of a long schedule and obviously we couldn't stick with (the Americans)....
ADAM STERN
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 is not the root of all evil, it is the fruit. Humans are the root.
RAIN BOJANGLES
I knew then that this is how God loves us all and receives us all, and that there is no such thing i...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in g...
BILL JAMES
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it emb...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with lon...
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER
“The human race is one of the few creatures whom can cry tears. If you look at us we are running a...
ADRIAN SANDVAER
The drive to knowledge has become too strong for us to be able to want happiness without knowledge o...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
If you look at things as they are, there does not seem to be a code either of man or of God on which...
KHUSHWANT SINGH
I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the arm...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the arm...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.
And that no one knows the truth.
MOLLY IVINS
If money is the root of all evil why do you ask for it in the church
LIL TREYCO
“A question is the root to all evil, from there we can make assumptions!”
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER
if money is the root of all evil what is it doing in the offering pot in church
LIL TREYCO
It is true that every day has its own evil, and its good too. But how difficult must life be, especi...
VINCENT VAN GOGH
All things return (to their root and disappear), and do not know that it is it which presides over t...
LAO TZU
Never get involved with people who are likely to envy you at the end of the day. People like that wi...
C. JOYBELL C.
The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all k...
CRISS JAMI
Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
We can effectively respond to all of these points if allowed to do so. This is disheartening, but no...
CLINT WRIGHT
All good and all evil comes from within us, as does our projection of it onto people, places, and th...
JIM GENOVESE
I'll spare you the rest of our conversations. I'm very calm and take no notice of all the fuss. I've...
ANNE FRANK
If the European Union decides not to keep its word, if its own leaders decide to forget their signat...
ABDULLAH GUL
A lot of times family business people are there without having been out on their own. All of us demo...
JEFF DEBOER
In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reco...
SAVINIEN CYRANO DE BERGERAC
There's no such thing as a copy anymore. Everything we do now is digitally created somewhere and sen...
LINDSAY GRAY
All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
EARL NIGHTINGALE
Give a human being power, and he or she will think that he or she can control the whole world! This ...
PHILIP T. M.
Its, of course, very troubling to us that we had a student of ours pose these kinds of threats.
KAREN HANSEN
Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness.
MIKE GILL
Money, the root of all evil... but the cure for all sadness.
MIKE GILL
We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the tim...
THICH NHAT HANH
After all, what Buddhism offers as a solution is universalised indifference - a learning of how to w...
SLAVOJ ŽIžEK
It's no good to give money to anybody who thinks money as the root of all evil.
TOBA BETA
And remember, silence is all it takes to validate evil and remember, indifference is all it takes to...
ADEOSUN OLAMIDE
Before the details of the collision start to fade in any human beings' mind with time, we want to se...
CRAIG QUIGLEY
The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
Money — the root of all evil.... Man needs roots.
ANONYMOUS
Let us pardon those who have wronged us. For that which others scarcely accomplish -- I mean the blo...
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
We may all be inclined to think of man's countless foolish and selfish intentions, his twisted and m...
KARL BARTH
Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shad...
PEARL S. BUCK
Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow i...
PEARL S. BUCK
Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such an authority over us that we...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
You can enjoy your guests and we can take care of all the details. When you use a caterer you have t...
ANDREW PANTANO
The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it...
GALILEO GALILEI
Before money, woman is the root of all evil because if woman didn’t exist, money would have no mea...
VIKRANT PARSAI
It's no good to give money to anybody
who thinks money as the root of all evil.
TOBA BETA
Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my ...
GRACE JONES
Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.
, FROM ROBERT HEINLEIN'S "TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE"
The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the s...
WILLIAM HARVEY
With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its o...
THOMAS CHALMERS
All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
EARL NIGHTINGALE
This new-look side is HIS side, they are all HIS signings and as such, HE must take absolute respons...
DAVID GILES
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes bac...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
If you say that money is God, then you should also remember that it is also the root of all evil.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral person...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral person...
CARL JUNG
And since the portions of both the large and the small are equal in amount, in this way too all thin...
ANAXAGORAS
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as tr...
SAMUEL BUTLER

More I Ching

One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The su...
I CHING
The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and rema...
I CHING
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, p...
I CHING
Before a thunderstorm there is a build-up of tension which is only relieved by the explosive force o...
I CHING
Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal de...
I CHING
The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its tru...
I CHING
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such re...
I CHING
The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances bo...
I CHING
A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then...
I CHING
He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather frie...
I CHING
The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances bo...
I CHING
Adversity breaks the inferior man's will but only bends the superior man's spirit. Outward influence...
I CHING
Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that ...
I CHING
Secret forces are bringing compatible spirits together. If the man permits himself to be led by this...
I CHING
It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To fee...
I CHING (B.C.1150?)
The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze ...
CHING-AN
It is truly said: It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to dec...
CHOW CHING
I think I played well today and you know it's up to him. All I can do is go out there and do the bes...
BRIAN CHING
A lot of forwards have been playing well so far. But I'm still in there.
BRIAN CHING
It's a big opportunity for me because it's a chance to show what I've got. It's definitely important...
BRIAN CHING
I was chomping at the bit to get in. We battled hard and it was a fair result. It starts us off on t...
BRIAN CHING
I was chomping at the bit to get in, ... We battled hard and it was a fair result. It starts us off ...
BRIAN CHING
It was frustrating because I thought I had some momentum. But I know what (Arena) is looking for, an...
BRIAN CHING
It was frustrating because I thought I had some momentum,
BRIAN CHING
This was a huge win for us tonight. We came in with the expectation of getting three points and we a...
BRIAN CHING
Look at what's happened this whole season. Brad Davis went down. I went down. Last week, we didn't h...
BRIAN CHING
Guys believe in the system, and that's what works. When you're in a league like this where the talen...
BRIAN CHING
I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
CYRUS CHING
The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze...
CHING-AN
Walk slowly at a relaxed pace and you will not stumble.
TAOTE CHING
There's two ways to trade: technical and fundamental. We prefer technical as it's based on how the b...
DEREK CHING
People feel intimidated by the market as it is. We think of ourselves as your local friend in the ma...
DEREK CHING
With a new management team in place, the review process will likely lead to more conservative revenu...
MICHAEL CHING
It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions an...
CHING NING CHU
Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one...
CHING NING CHU
If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever ...
CHING NING CHU
Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.
TAO TE CHING
To know you have enough is to be rich.
TAO TE CHING
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and gen...
TAO TE CHING
Do your work and then step back: the only path to serenity.
TAO TE CHING
Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army...
TAO TE CHING
When spring comes the grass grows by itself.
TAO TE CHING
Logically, if you grow up here and you are open minded, you go to college and never come back. If yo...
G. P. CHING
Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.
TAO TE CHING
Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.
TAO TE CHING
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; maste...
TAO TE CHING
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; maste...
TAO TE CHING
Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
FRANCIS I
Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy.
STANISLAUS I
Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to ma...
BAUDOUIN I
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
NAPOLEON I
When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
GREGORY I
Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long a...
ELIZABETH I
Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.
Let justice be done, though the world perish.
FERDINAND I
Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with you...
ELIZABETH I
I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am e...
ELIZABETH I
Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.
CHARLES I
It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy...
BAUDOUIN I
Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been ...
ELIZABETH I
In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings ...
FAROUK I
Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.
CHARLES I
The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.
ELIZABETH I
'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what the word did make i...
ELIZABETH I
If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen...
ELIZABETH I
When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty
GREGORY I
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delig...
I. KRISHNAMURTI
People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
ELIZABETH I
In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
ELIZABETH I
A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
ELIZABETH I
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, an...
ELIZABETH I
If we still advise we shall never do.
ELIZABETH I
Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.
ELIZABETH I
Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily ...
ELIZABETH I
The word must is not to be used to princes.
ELIZABETH I
The end crowneth the work.
ELIZABETH I
A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
ELIZABETH I
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
ELIZABETH I
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
ELIZABETH I
God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at lea...
ELIZABETH I
God forgive you, but I never can.
ELIZABETH I
I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that ...
ELIZABETH I
The past cannot be cured.
ELIZABETH I
The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.
ELIZABETH I
I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
ELIZABETH I
I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a pe...
ELIZABETH I
To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to th...
ELIZABETH I
I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
ELIZABETH I
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and o...
ELIZABETH I
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
ELIZABETH I
All my possessions for a moment of time.
ELIZABETH I
You should learn how say things with your eyes that others waste time putting into words.
EYDEN I.
As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have ...
ELIZABETH I
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
ELIZABETH I
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dan...
ELIZABETH I
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
STANISLAUS I
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such s...
ELIZABETH I
Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends ...
ELIZABETH I
(Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden's proposal of marriage:)

"[W]hile we perceive ... th...
ELIZABETH I
[F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., un...
ELIZABETH I
[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having...
ELIZABETH I
To be vain of one's rank or place, is to show that one is below it.
STANISLAS I
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti...
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to...
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of...
Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their chi...
A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and d...
If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it ...
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Friendship is love with understanding.
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation
To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have li...
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good...
The guilty catch themselves.
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.
Hate pollutes the mind.
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.
To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.
Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming t...
"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."
It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.
Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the t...
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ...
Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.
"What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood i...
It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice.
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.
Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and u...
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.
One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us ...
No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.
Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break.
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-re...
Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.
Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea
Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about...
Age withers only the outside.
Where ambition ends happiness begins.
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
People who know the least always argue the most.
If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.
What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.
He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance
It is better to live richly than to die rich.
On his examination paper a boy wrote, "A natural death is where you die by yourself without a doctor...
Many things are worse than defeat,and compromise with evil is one of them.
Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.
We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct...
A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.
Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.
Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them
Catch your people doing something right and let them know you appreciate it.
Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and re...
Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind.
Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity a...
There are many roads to hate, but envy is the shortest of them all.