This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Half of the secret of getting along with people is consideration of their views; the other half is toleration in one's own views.
Consideration | People | Toleration | Wisdom |
Julius Charles Hare (1795-1855) and his brother Augustus William Hare
Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy - by consulting the oracular dead.
Philip G. Hamerton, fully Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or literature or art. It is by; these private friendships, even more than by public performance, that the tradition of sound thinking and great doing is perpetuated from age to age.
Age | Art | Literature | Men | Public | Science | Sound | Thinking | Tradition | Wisdom | Old |
It is of things heavenly and universal declaration, working in them whose hearts God inspireth with the due consideration thereof, and habit or disposition of mind whereby they are made fit vessels both for the receipt and delivery of whatsoever spiritual perfection.
Consideration | God | Habit | Mind | Perfection | Wisdom | God |
Edmund Husserl, fully Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl
Cognition is, after all, only human cognition, bound up with human intellectual forms, and unfit to reach the very nature of things, to reach things in themselves.
I had a "near death experience" and remember thinking, "If only people knew what it was like to die, they wouldn't be afraid." I reached a point at which a voice began to ask me if I thought I'd completed what I'd come to do. was I going to leave my son, then age three, behind? There was no sense of threat or coercion. An absolute acceptance that whatever I did was all right, but pointing out that the moment of choice was now. The relief and release from the fear of dying changed my life. The reminder that "I am not my body" freed me to live my life in a different way. The understanding that no matter what is going on in our bodies, the essence of who we are is unaffected; this wisdom has enabled me to help other see their bodies in a different way. To see the body in illness not as an enemy, but as a faithful fried, programmed by; the soul to react in that exact way. To see illness as a confrontation in the physical of what one is reluctant to confront on the mental or emotional levels. In other words, a message, a communication, a time to listen and therefore a unique and powerful opportunity for transformation.
Absolute | Acceptance | Age | Body | Choice | Coercion | Death | Enemy | Experience | Fear | Life | Life | Opportunity | People | Right | Sense | Soul | Thinking | Thought | Time | Understanding | Unique | Wisdom | Words | Thought |
To reject wisdom because the person who communicates it is uncouth and his manners are inelegant, what is it but to throw away a pineapple and assign for a reason the roughness of its coat?
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Common Sense | Sense | Wisdom | Wise |
Juvenal, fully Decimus Junius Juvenalis NULL
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Pope Julius III, born Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte NULL
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
Juvenal, fully Decimus Junius Juvenalis NULL
Nature and wisdom never are at strife.