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Quotes About Source

Note that an informed source need not fit our general stereotype of an "authority"—and a person who fits our stereotype of an authority may not even be an informed source.
~ Anthony Weston
For true love is inexhaustible the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them.
~ Antonin Artaud
Phineas Gage's case is not the only important historical source in the effort to understand the neural basis of reasoning and decision making...[to understand the effect of] prefrontal damage. ... The Hebb-Penfield and Ackerly-Benton shared a number of personality traits...One way of describing their predicament is by saying that they never construct an appropriate theory about their persons.
~ Antonio Damasio
Self-belief in the stressful life is the sole source of relief to the soul.
~ Anuj Somany
Everything has an origin in it, and animals are no exception.
~ Ari Berk & Carolyn Dunn
Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.
~ Aristotle
Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.
~ Aristotle
Some are shy of going to the source For riches begin in the sea.
~ Friedrich Hölderlin
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
But if a good heart, a good intention, a subjective conviction are declared to be the sources from which actions derive their worth, then there is no longer any hypocrisy or evil at all; for whatever someone does, he can always turn it into something good through reflecting on his good intentions and motives, and so the moment of his convictions renders it good.
~ G.W.F. Hegel
England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
~ John Burroughs
Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception.
~ Pierre Schaeffer
Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace.
~ David Lynch
Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.
~ Christoph Martin Wieland
Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth.
~ Nicolaus Copernicus
I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.
~ Joichi Ito
It's hard to know where your thoughts come from, especially when you have a thirst for material because you need it professionally.
~ Louis C. K.
Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.
~ Jack Henry Abbott
Maybe compassion is compulsion, creativity is insanity. If this is so, then is craziness a good thing, the source of our humanity?
~ Rosie O'Donnell
No one can be any better than his source of motivation. The entire secret of life boils down to this—our energy comes from who or what turns us on—good, or evil.
~ Roy Masters
El libro es fuerza, es valor, es fuerza, es alimento; antorcha del pensamiento y manantial del amor
~ Ruben Dario
Não há razões para a alegria. Ela é uma fonte da eternidade que emerge no tempo.
~ Rubem Alves
You are an Universe of Universes and your soul a source of songs.
~ Ruben Dario