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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Samuel Butler

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Learning | Life | Life | Public | Wisdom |

Samuel Butler

The public buys its opinions as it buys its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

Public | Wisdom |

G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton

There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.

Wisdom |

Bill Copeland

You have removed most of the road blocks to success when you have learned the difference between motion and direction.

Success | Wisdom |

John Dewey

In the traditional method, the child must say something that he has merely learned. There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and having to say something.

Method | Wisdom | World | Child |

John Dewey

This which marks the difference between bestiality and humanity, between culture and merely physical nature, is because man remembers, preserving and recording his experiences.

Culture | Humanity | Man | Nature | Wisdom |

John Dewey

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

Action | Health | Justice | Kindness | Learning | Unique | Wealth | Wisdom |

G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Man | Wants | Wisdom |

Clarence Darrow, fully Clarence Seward Darrow

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

Justice | Wisdom |

Declaration of American Women NULL

Man-made barriers, laws, social customs and prejudices continue to keep a majority of women in an inferior position without full control of our lives and bodies. From infancy throughout life, in personal and public relations, in the family, in the schools, in every occupation and profession, too often we find our individuality, our capabilities, our earning powers diminished by discriminatory practices and outmoded ideas of what a woman is, what a woman can do, and what a woman must be... We lack effective political and economic power We have only minor and insignificant roles in making, interpreting and enforcing our laws, in running our political parties, businesses, unions, schools and institutions, in directing the media, in governing our country, in deciding issues of war or peace. We do not seek special privileges, but we demand as a human right a full voice and role for women in determining the destiny of our world, our nation, our families and our individual lives.

Control | Destiny | Family | Ideas | Individual | Individuality | Infancy | Life | Life | Majority | Man | Occupation | Peace | Position | Power | Public | Right | War | Wisdom | Woman | World |

Auguste Comte, formally Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte

The happiness of every man depends on the harmony between the development of his various faculties and the entire system of circumstances which govern his life.

Circumstances | Harmony | Life | Life | Man | System | Wisdom | Govern | Happiness |

Albert Einstein

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

Diversity | Experience | Science | Sense | System | Thought | Wisdom |

Thomas E. Dewey, fully Thomas Edmund Dewey

No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.

Life | Life | Man | Money | Office | Public | Wisdom |

Albert Einstein

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Cooperation | Justice | Men | Trust | Wisdom |

David Dudley Field II

Above all others is justice: success is a good thing; wealth is good also; honor is better; but justice excels them all.

Better | Good | Honor | Justice | Success | Wealth | Wisdom |