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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Robert South, fully Bishop Robert South

Temperance is a virtue which casts the truest lustre upon the person it is lodged in, and has the most general influence upon all other particular virtues of any that the soul of man is capable of; indeed so general, that there is hardly any noble quality or endowment of the mind, but must own temperance either for its parent or its nurse; it is the greatest strengthener and clearer of reason, and the best preparer of it for religion, the sister of prudence, and the handmaid to devotion.

Devotion | Influence | Man | Mind | Prudence | Prudence | Reason | Religion | Soul | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom | Parent |

Marcus Bach, fully James Marcus Bach

In this world within, your world, you are the most important figure. There is a place that no one else can fill There is an influence that no one else can impart. There is a life that no one else can live quite as well as you can live it. What you do with your life within, in terms of self-realization, self-awareness, self-denial and self-expression, is the greatest challenge that can come to you.

Awareness | Challenge | Important | Influence | Life | Life | Self | Self-awareness | Self-denial | Self-realization | World |

Ashoka or Ashoka the Great NULL

One should honour another man’s sect, for by doing so one increases the influence of one’s own sect and benefits that of the other man.

Influence | Man |

Etel Adnan

There is a dialectical relation between one’s life and one’s work. The former obviously influences the latter, but one’s work also becomes an influence on one’s life. It is atwo way affair, a mysterious process where what we call life and what we call creation merge, and do not merge, cross feed each other.

Influence | Life | Life | Work |

Sven Birkerts

The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place.

Influence | Life | Life | Reality | Right | Wrong |

Stokely Carmichael

One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.

Change | Influence |

Edward Hallet "Ted" Carr

The most effective way to influence opinion is by the selection and arrangement of the appropriate facts.

Influence | Opinion |

L. Francis Edmunds

Materialism assumes a line of `continuity’ running through the whole scheme of nature, despite its obvious gaps; on the contrary, he underlines the significance of `discontinuity’ as positive evidence of the intervention of a higher source of influence which escapes man’s limited `scale of observation.’ A giant or a microbe would, with similar intelligence, observe the same phenomenon differently; they might be guided by their scales of observation to different, or at least, to modified conclusions. There is no scientific truth in an absolute sense. The phrase Ad veritatem per scientiam is an absurdity.

Absolute | Evidence | Influence | Intelligence | Man | Materialism | Nature | Observation | Sense | Truth |

Millicent Fenwick

Influence comes out of the work that you’ve done and the things you’ve stood for. Influence and power shouldn’t be given to just anybody who wants them.

Influence | Power | Wants | Work |

William Ralph Inge

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about 100 years before it is born.

Character | Influence | Time | Child |

Peter W. Jedlicka

If your goals are not important, your influence will be minimal.

Goals | Important | Influence | Will |

Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson

The mischief of flattery is not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of honest ambition, by raising an opinion that honor may be gained without the toil of merit.

Ambition | Flattery | Honor | Influence | Man | Merit | Opinion |

Carl Jung, fully Carl Gustav Jung

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Children | Influence | Life | Life | Nothing |

Andrew Kimbrell

Predictions, in themselves, can influence the future.

Future | Influence |

Pierre Lecomte du Noüy

The wake of Moses, of Buddha, of Confucius, of Lao Tse, of Christ, probably exert a greater influence over humanity today than when these men were pondering over its fate and happiness. No man ever disappears completely if he strives to do good and expects no reward outside of the joy of having contributed to the progress of mankind.

Fate | Good | Humanity | Influence | Joy | Man | Mankind | Men | Progress | Reward | Fate |

Joost Meerloo. fully Joost Abraham Maurits Meerlo

In Totalitaria, jails and concentration camps by the score are built in order to provoke fear and awe among the population… In these centers of fear, nobody is really corrected; he is, as it were, expelled from humanity, wasted, killed – but too quickly, lest the terrorizing influence be diminished. The truth of the matter is that these jails are built not for real criminals, but rather for their terrorizing effect on the bystanders, the citizens of Totalitaria.

Awe | Fear | Humanity | Influence | Order | Truth |

Gamel Abdel Nasser

The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one another. No country can escape looking beyond its boundaries to find the source of the currents which influence how it can live with others.

Age | Influence | Isolation |