The Source Quotes

I have never sought out the extraordinary or the scoop. I looked at what complemented my life. The beauty of the ordinary was always the source of my greatest emotions.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.

Creative people have to be fed from the divine source. I have to get fed. I had to get filled up in order to pour out.

The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.

Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.

The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there.

I need to have something to source my energy to and something to remove me from my own weird brain.

A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of light. But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.

Fear can be a natural ally, a homemade power source... Staying in the present, fear can only help you.

The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income.

You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

Returning to the source is stillness. It is returning to one's fate. Returning to one's fate is eternal.

Earth is the material with the most potential because it is the original source material.

To stop suffering, stop greediness. Greediness is a source of suffering.

I rarely eat red meat and only occasionally eat fish. Plant based foods are my main source of nutrition along with nuts, fruits, brown breads and grains.

Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.

A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower.

The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.

When the very source of creation is within you, all the solutions are within you. The problems are just created by you.

When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.

The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

To listen only to records is a sin of narcissism. It is important to hear live music, in concert, which is a source of emotions that a record can never convey.

Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

If you cannot find a group whose consciousness matches your own, be the source of one. Others of like consciousness will be drawn to you.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.

The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure.... And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention. S/M isthe use of a strategic relationship as a source of pleasure.

Your heart is the center of humility, your mind could be the source of arrogance.

Fountain of Love my source is in thee - Loving thy will my spirit is free - Beautiful day when all of us see - The hope of the world is Love!

Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action.

Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don't know one another and have spent no time hanging around the water cooler.

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!

The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the 'I'-thought rises

So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

The heart is, truly, the source of love. The proof is that if you remove it from someone, they will almost certainly never love again.

The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.

I also think that life itself is both indifferent to us and the source of all of our joys and everything that we love. And it's necessary to accept the one in order to love the other.

The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.

No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

So you set out to travel to Rome... and end up in Istanbul. You set off for Japan... and you end up on a train across Siberia. The journey, not the destination, becomes a source of wonder.

You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.