Definition of Source

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The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.

The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain.

That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause.

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Source Quotations

The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
Mark Twain

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates

Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
Jack Welch

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
Erma Bombeck

Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Anais Nin

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
Sigmund Freud

Source Translations

source in Afrikaans is bron
source in Danish is kilde
source in Dutch is bron, wel, kwel, welput
source in Finnish is kaivo
source in French is source
source in German is Quell, Ursprung, Quelle
source in Italian is sorgente, origine, fonte
source in Latin is profectio, origo, ortus
source in Norwegian is kilde
source in Portuguese is fonte, nascente
source in Spanish is venera

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