Source Quotes

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self.

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.

In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.

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.

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.

Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.

For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.

In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.