This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Here may we prove the pow'r of pray'r, to strengthen faith, and sweeten care; to teach our faint desires to rise, and bring all heav'n before our eyes.
Will Durant, fully William James "Will" Durant
Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
Cause | Civilization | Harmony | Hate | History | Men | Peace | Pessimism | Wisdom |
Wilkie Collins, fully William Wilkie Collins
Tell him next, that crimes cause their own detection. There's another bit of copy-book morality for you, Fosco. Crimes cause their own detection. What infernal humbug!
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Here we go again! America is running true to form, fixing some other country’s business for ’em just as we always do. We mean well, but will wind up in wrong as usual.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
I have looked politics and the movies both over and, while they have much in common I believe politics is the most common, so I will stay with the movies.
Confidence | Work | World |
I shall proceed as rapidly as time and circumstances will permit, hoping that a few of my contemporaries will care to grow old with me while learning.
Werner Heisenberg, fully Werner Karl Heisenberg
The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa.
In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natural law and the idea of 'God' are pointing to one and the same reality.
We need to ask not whether it is realistic or practical or viable but whether it is imaginable. We need to ask if our consciousness and imagination have been so assaulted and co-opted by the royal consciousness that we have been robbed of the courage or power to think an alternative thought.
Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no-one says exactly what he thinks.
Warren Bennis, fully Warren Gamaliel Bennis
Leadership is the capacity to transform vision into reality.
Will | Leadership |
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
Despite three years of falling prices, which have significantly improved the attractiveness of common stocks, we still find very few that even mildly interest us. That dismal fact is testimony to the insanity of valuations reached during The Great Bubble. Unfortunately, the hangover may prove to be proportional to the binge.
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
I don’t have a problem with guilt about money. The way I see it is that my money represents an enormous number of claim checks on society. It’s like I have these little pieces of paper that I can turn into consumption. If I wanted to, I could hire 10,000 people to do nothing but paint my picture every day for the rest of my life. And the GNP would go up. But the utility of the product would be zilch, and I would be keeping those 10,000 people from doing AIDS research, or teaching, or nursing. I don’t do that though. I don’t use very many of those claim checks. There’s nothing material I want very much. And I’m going to give virtually all of those claim checks to charity when my wife and I die.
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q., once you’re above the level of 125, once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is, the temperament to control the urges, that get other people into trouble, in investing.
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
Do a lot of reading. [On how to determine the value of a business]
Insanity |