Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Matthias Alexander, fully Frederick Matthias Alexander

Every man, woman and child holds the possibility of physical perfection: it rests with each of us to attain it by personal understanding and effort.

Effort | Man | Perfection | Understanding | Wisdom | Woman | Child |

Ralph Waldo Trine

One need remain in hell no longer than he chooses to; and the moment he chooses not to remain longer, not all the powers in the universe can prevent his leaving it. One can rise to any heaven he himself chooses; and when he chooses so to rise, all the higher powers of the universe combine to help him heavenward.

Character | Heaven | Hell | Need | Universe |

Yechiel Michel Tukatinsky

From the perspective of the minuteness of our planet in relationship with the entire universe a person’s seeking honor is ridiculous.

Character | Honor | Relationship | Universe |

Carleton Washburne

In our thinking we must preserve an open and enquiring mind, an ability to see things through the eyes of our opponents, a skill for understanding the motives and thoughts of those whom we oppose. Yet we must act in the light of the best knowledge and reason available to us at the moment.

Ability | Character | Knowledge | Light | Mind | Motives | Reason | Skill | Thinking | Understanding | Wisdom |

Stephen Samuel Wise

Sharing is the great and imperative need of our time. An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen but greatens his life, especially if sharing be done not formally nor conventionally, but rather with such heartiness as springs out of an understanding of the meaning of the religion of sharing.

Character | Life | Life | Meaning | Need | Religion | Time | Understanding |

Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

One universe made up of all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

God | Law | Reason | Thinking | Truth | Universe | Wisdom | God |

Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman

Simplicity is the glory of expression. The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

Character | Glory | Simplicity | Universe |

William Warburton

Of all exercises there are none of so much importance, or so immediately our concern, as those which let us into the knowledge of our own nature. Others may exercise the understanding or amuse the imagination; but these only can improve the heart and form the human mind to wisdom.

Character | Heart | Imagination | Knowledge | Mind | Nature | Understanding | Wisdom |

Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman

All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

Character | Miracles | Universe |

Annette A Victorin

Peace comes to us through love, understanding of our fellow men, faith. Peace does not include selfishness nor indifference. Peace is never wrapped at a counter for a price. It is earned by giving of ourselves.

Character | Faith | Giving | Indifference | Love | Men | Peace | Price | Selfishness | Understanding |

Bernard Baruch, fully Bernard Mannes Baruch

Let this be anchored in our minds: Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions. We must embrace international cooperation or international disintegration.

Cooperation | Peace | Race | Understanding | Wisdom |

Vicki Baum, fully Hedwig "Vicki" Baum

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Art | Insincerity | Marriage | Understanding | Wisdom | Art |