Roots Quotes - Page 38

• That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Lying, Unseen, World

  Rudolf Steiner, Max Gysi (2011). “Outline of Occult Science”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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• We must eradicate root and branch any fear and dread in our soul concerning the future that is coming towards us... We must develop composure with regard to all the feelings and sensations we have about the future; we must anticipate with absolute equanimity whatever may be coming towards us, thinking only that whatever it may be will be brought to us by the wisdom-filled guidance of the universe.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Thinking, Soul, Feelings

  Rudolf Steiner (2011). “On Fear”, p.29, Rudolf Steiner Press

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• The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

  Byron White

  Law, Judging, Design

  Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186, 1985.

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• Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Daughter, Mother, Drawing

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.33, Knopf

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• When I was 12 years old, or however old I was when Bringing It All Back Home came out, I'd just skip back and forth endlessly between 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' and 'It's Alright, Ma' and 'Mr. Tambourine Man,' and now my Bob Dylan roots are showing big time.

  Rodney Crowell

  Home, Men, Years

  "The Outsider / Rodney Crowell makes music outside the country -- and country's -- mainstream" by Derk Richardson, www.sfgate.com. September 29, 2005.

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• People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future.

  Haki R. Madhubuti

  Land, People, Giving

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• 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.

  John Selden

  Taken, Expression, Tree

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• We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%

  Donald Knuth

  Opportunity, Evil, Debugging

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• Never have the world's moneys been so long cut off from their metallic roots.

  Murray Rothbard

  Cutting, Long, Gold

  Murray N. Rothbard (2011). “Economic Controversies”, p.755, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

  Carl Sandburg

  Struggle, Flower, Silence

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect

  Roy Jenkins

  Party, Class, Intellectual

  Roy Jenkins (1972). “What Matters Now. -”, Harper San Francisco

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• Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.

  Joseph Needham

  Technology, China, Science And Technology

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• I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies

  Henry Paulson

  Believe, Government, Causes

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• I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may feel the urge to grasp a passive verb or one of those nasty adverbs for the same reason. Just remember before you do that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Magic, Needs

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Mystics understand the roots of the Tao but not its branches; scientists understand its branches but not its roots. Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science; but man needs both.

  Fritjof Capra

  Science, Men, Understanding

  "The Tao of Physics". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1975.

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• I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should not be admissible in any field of science... This loosening of thinking seems to me to be the greatest blessing which modern science has given to us. For the belief in a single truth and in being the possessor thereof is the root cause of all evil in the world.

  Max Born

  Believe, Thinking, Blessing

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• It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet. These lines may have their roots in quite different parts of human nature, in different times or different cultural environments or different religious traditions: hence if they actually meet, that is, if they are at least so much related to each other that a real interaction can take place, then one may hope that new and interesting developments may follow.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Religious, Real, Thinking

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• Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Children, Evil, Use

  Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”

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• I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees until the giants came foundering down. I have watched shores slip and perish, the channels silt and change; what was beach become a swamp and a headland tumble into the sea. An island has eroded in silent pain since my boyhood, and reefs have become islands. Yet the old people used to say, People pass away, but not the land. It remains forever. Maybe that is so. The land changes. The land continues. The sea changes. The sea remains.

  Keri Hulme

  Beach, Pain, Islands

  Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.336, LSU Press

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• I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

  Rick James

  Trying, Progressive, Funk

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Jan 06, 2014

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• Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security.

  Edward Stettinius, Jr.

  Happiness, Important, Security

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• If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites.

  Greg Gutfeld

  America, House, Left

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• Water the root to enjoy the fruit.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Water, Fruit, Enjoy

  "A School for Meditation Teachers" by Robert Reinhold, www.nytimes.com. June 22, 1971.

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• All problems in life arise from some weakness of mind. All weakness of mind is due to the mind's ignorance of its own essential nature, which is universal and the source of infinite energy and intelligence. ... In order to root out any problem of life it is only necessary to be brought out of ignorance, to be brought to knowledge.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Ignorance, Order, Mind

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• The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'.

  Mary Daly

  Etymology, Sin, Planets

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