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Quotes About Sources

Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.
~ William Trogdon
If you are a reliable, honest journalist, sources will open up and trust you and share good information.
~ Wolf Blitzer
Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries.
~ Colin Powell
Keep your eyes open. Look at the world without prejudice, pay attention to your sources, and decide for yourself where the truth lies. That is the greatness of the path I'm offering you.
~ Javier Sierra
How did you know I was here in town?" "The old quarter here in Cadence is my neighborhood now," she said smoothly,"Let's just say I have my sources." "Right", He nodded, evidently satisfied and picked up his sandwich. "your mother phoned and told you I was on my way here to Cadence.
~ Jayne Castle
chapitre xviii Aux sources des religions La thèse développée par l'anthropologue français René Girard dans La Violence et le Sacré 1 , et dans Des choses cachées depuis la fondation du monde 2 , illustre la manière dont, des religions traditionnelles les plus anciennes
~ Jean-Marie Pelt
Science is a river with two sources, the practical source and the theoretical source.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
~ Herbert A. Simon
My photography is mainly focused on my work making movies, which I've done my whole life. I think I have a perspective that not many people have. And I get to take advantage of all of the strange sources of light on a set.
~ Jeff Bridges
I actually think the civil service, who are the malignancy at the heart of public life, have consciously prevented, talked ministers out of, made it difficult regulatory-wise, to allow more pressure on alternative energy sources to grow.
~ Ken Livingstone
I once interviewed David Herbert Donald, the Lincoln historian, and we talked about how one deals with the secondary sources and the previous biographies. He said something which kept coming back to me as I worked on Cleopatra, which was: 'There's no further new material; there are only new questions.'
~ Stacy Schiff
When professional work is decomposed, constituent tasks tend to be allocated to the least costly sources consistent with the quality and nature of the work involved.
~ Richard Susskind
I do believe that the original sources of all religions should be taught, because with that we will find our similarities, not just our differences.
~ Yehuda Berg
The news I read was so upsetting that it drove all else out of my mind. There was but one short line:   "According to reliable sources, new traces have been discovered of the elusive organization which aims at liberation from the beneficent yoke of the State."   "Liberation?" Amazing, the extent to which criminal instincts persist in human nature.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
fictions. If you want to know the truth about the world, at some point you will have to renounce power. You will have to admit things—for example, about the sources of your own power—that will anger allies,
~ Yuval Noah Harari
It is the responsibility of all of us to invest time and effort in uncovering our biases and in verifying our sources of information. As noted in earlier chapters, we cannot investigate everything ourselves. But precisely because of that, we need to at least carefully investigate our favorite sources of information—be they a newspaper, a website, a TV network, or a person.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
we cannot investigate everything ourselves. But precisely because of that, we need to at least carefully investigate our favorite sources of information—be they a newspaper, a website, a TV network, or a person.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Love, gratitude, compassion, and kindness are the sources of all enduring, pure happiness.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
Out of all these sources of almost forgotten oral history, I have tried to fashion a narrative of the conquest of the American West as the victims experienced it, using their own words whenever possible
~ Dee Brown
There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.
~ Wilhelm Wundt
He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.
~ Archibald Alexander Hodge
If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.
~ Matthew Simpson
Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world's economic leader.
~ Judy Biggert
I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class.
~ Bill Ayers