A Quote by Plato

Ignorance: the root of all evil.

Plato

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Plato
Greek - Philosopher
427 BC - 347 BC

What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.

Gautama Buddha

Money is not the root of all evil...ignorance is the root of all evil. People do cruel and foolish things for money because they feel oppressed by a sense of lack. If people knew their power to generate wealth, they would never fight or hurt each other over money.

Alan Cohen

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Plato

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

Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.

Soren Kierkegaard

The truth that I know for sure is that I may have an opinion, but I do not know the truth, and the other thing I know for sure is that certainty is the root of all ignorance and the root of all evil.

Grant Bowler

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.

Gene Simmons

Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.

Stephen Fry

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Simone Weil

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.

Richard Dawkins

I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

Voltaire

... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity, combined with extreme ignorance of conditions the knowledge of which is the very A B C of business and of life, produces more shipwrecks and heartaches than any other part of our mental make-up.

Alice Foote MacDougall

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

Louisa May Alcott

If money is the root of all evil, then China's manipulation of its currency, the yuan, is the tap root of everything wrong with the U.S.-China trade relationship.