Source Quotes
What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat… where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic Invaluable….the best one-stop source I’ve seen for what various officials actually said at various times, suffused with intelligent analysis.
Alan BockAlan Bock But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
Muhammad IqbalMuhammad Iqbal A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Oliver GoldsmithOliver Goldsmith I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
Irvin D. YalomIrvin D. Yalom The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
Ludwig von MisesLudwig von Mises Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.
David RicardoDavid Ricardo The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
Ludwig von MisesLudwig von Mises Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
Carson McCullersCarson McCullers In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, – this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit.
Queen Elizabeth IIQueen Elizabeth II Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
Tim MinchinTim Minchin