Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Plato
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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
PLATO I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.
And that no one knows the truth.
MOLLY IVINS 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 Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil.
CRISS JAMI Love of money is the root of all evil and the love of food is the root of all disease.
DR HITESH C SHETH Lack of money is the root of all evil.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Money is not the root of all evil, it is the fruit. Humans are the root.
RAIN BOJANGLES Money — the root of all evil.... Man needs roots.
ANONYMOUS Not having money is the root of all evil..
OLASOT 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 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 I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
PATRICIA CORNWELL So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
AYN RAND Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
SIMONE WEIL As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
DANIEL DEFOE 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 Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
WILLIAM PENN Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.
, FROM ROBERT HEINLEIN'S "TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE" Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more cert...
HANNAH MORE If money is the root of all evil, then why do we make it?
STEVEN ESPINOSA It is logical to say that ignorance seems to be the root cause of all human suffering.
KAT LAHR Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the natu...
ERIC HOFFER The love of money is the root of all evil, therefore selfishness must be the seed.
M.D. BIRMINGHAM The beauty of women is the root of all evil, it makes men lose their minds
JESUS BARRAZA Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.
DONALD KNUTH Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommend...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Overcofidence and ignorance are the root causes of sexuall dissatisfaction in the world today.
AULIQ-ICE The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.
STUART WILDE If money is the root of all evil why do you ask for it in the church
LIL TREYCO 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 It's no good to give money to anybody who thinks money as the root of all evil.
TOBA BETA “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 If money is the root of all evil, then China's manipulation of its currency, the yuan, is the ta...
PETER NAVARRO It's no good to give money to anybody
who thinks money as the root of all evil.
TOBA BETA Never get involved with people who are likely to envy you at the end of the day. People like that wi...
C. JOYBELL C. Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Before money, woman is the root of all evil because if woman didn’t exist, money would have no mea...
VIKRANT PARSAI Evil is ignorance.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all...
MAX BORN Give a human being power, and he will think that he can control the whole world! This is the true ro...
PHILIP T. M. Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
HENRY FIELDING 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 If you say that money is God, then you should also remember that it is also the root of all evil.
VIKRANT PARSAI Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men
are caught by it as fish by a hook....
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) evil is not power; it is ignorance and misuse of good.
JAMES ALLEN 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 The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
HERODOTUS The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
SOCRATES The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
SOCRATES For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from ...
BIBLE For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some
coveted after, they have erred fro...
BIBLE "God's plan" is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil
MARY DALY And sometimes ignorance is even harder to deal with than deliberate evil.
RYū MURAKAMI Give a human being power, and he or she will think that he or she can control the whole world! This ...
PHILIP T. M. There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance
SOCRATES There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
SOCRATES Hunger is a lesser evil than ignorance.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Door money. It’s a distraction. It impedes judgment. It blurs focus. Chasing the almighty dollar c...
CARLOS WALLACE Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes bac...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.
SOCRATES There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let t...
I CHING It is well worth the efforts of a life-time to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on ...
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its
approach.
UNKNOWN Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the cre...
ANDREW MURRAY ... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but h...
PLATO The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conq...
LUDWIG VON MISES There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU In the root and stem of your own psyche, there is an accumulation of bad habits. If you cannot see t...
YUANSOU We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hu...
ANTHONY HOPKINS Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of ...
EDWARD ABBEY Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.
FRANK ZAPPA Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow. It has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light...
SHAKTI GAWAIN My mind was formed by studying philosophy, WERNER HEISENBERG What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the
dark.
HENRY FORD Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but ...
PLATO Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; bu...
PLATO There is no worse discriminator than envy. No worse traitor than envy. Even those who are seemingly ...
C. JOYBELL C. There is no one who is completely evil as to lack some goodness in him.
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA There is an ignorance of evil that comes from being young: there is a darker ignorance that comes fr...
C.S. LEWIS From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost...
MARCUS AURELIUS Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good o...
GERARD DE NERVAL "The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life!" And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good...
GERALD DE NERVAL The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolen...
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PLATO Life must be lived as play.
PLATO Necessity... the mother of invention.
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PLATO I have good hope that there is something after death.
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PLATO The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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PLATO The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair
Across the tide to see her image there:
Then looking u...
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can be effected by men residing in ...
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