Roots Quotes

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If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities… — Charles Lindbergh
History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what… — Thomas Carlyle
The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind… — Francis Bacon
The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them. — Joseph Henry
Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it aims… — John Owen
Great winds and storms help fruit-bearing trees. So also do corruptions and temptations help the fruitfulness of grace and holiness. The storm loosens the earth… — John Owen
It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors — Charles Caleb Colton
This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was… — Jonathan Swift
Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of can we presume… — Cynthia Heimel
When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out… — Abraham Lincoln
You may have decided again and again, and again and again you have failed - not because smoking is such a great phenomenon that you… — Rajneesh
It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Selfishness and fear are at the root of (pro-abortion) legislation...We in the Church have a great struggle to defend life...life is a gift not a… — Pope Benedict XVI
I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder...We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it. — Susan B. Anthony
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up. — George Eliot
This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and… — Rabindranath Tagore
Mind is politics, because mind is ambitious and ambition is the root of politics. If you are ambitious you are political. Your ambition may take… — Rajneesh
If you have desires, try to look - are those desires the cause of your misery? Nobody wants misery, but nobody is willing to drop… — Rajneesh
There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you. — Rajneesh
Spiritual seeking means knowing this negative part: that desiring is the root cause of frustration. To desire is to create, of one`s own accord, a… — Rajneesh
Desire means you are dragged out of the moment; that creates a tension, that creates anxiety, that creates hope. And then finally hope turns sour,… — Rajneesh
When your heart's gratitude comes to the fore, when you become all gratitude, this gratitude is like a flow, a flow of consciousness. When your… — Sri Chinmoy
A true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for him in Christ and whose whole comportment and… — Jacques Maritain
Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot. — Ben Jonson

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