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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Guiseppe Mazzini

To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; but to know the truth and not to conform one's actions to it is a crime which Heaven and Earth condemn.

Crime | Earth | Heaven | Misfortune | Truth | Wisdom | Misfortune |

J. V. Moldenhawer

Often our work seems insignificant and unimportant when we compare ourselves with the immensity of time and the universe, but God gave us our moment on earth to be used in the best possible way.

Earth | God | Time | Universe | Wisdom | Work | God |

Johann Pestalozzi, fully Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

I learned that no man in God’s wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man.

Earth | God | Man | Wisdom |

Pliny the Younger, full name Casus Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo NULL

It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.

Birth | Earth | Enemy | Man | Mother | Wisdom |

Sa'di (or Saadi), pen name of Abū-Muḥammad Muṣliḥ al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī, born Muslih-uddin NULL

The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not enclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.

Earth | Man | Wisdom |

Arthur Schnitzler

Without our faith in free will the earth would be the scene not only of the most horrible nonsense but also of the most intolerable boredom.

Earth | Faith | Free will | Nonsense | Will | Wisdom |

Robert E. Sherwood, fully Robert Emmet Sherwood

The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.

Earth | Friend | Man | Wisdom |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had someone pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!

Earth | Enough | Human race | Man | People | Race | Society | Wisdom |

Sa'di (or Saadi), pen name of Abū-Muḥammad Muṣliḥ al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī, born Muslih-uddin NULL

The money of the miser is coming out of the earth when he is himself going into it.

Earth | Money | Wisdom |

Leopold Schefer

Do not envy the violet the dew-drop or glitter of a sunbeam; do not envy the bee the plant from which he draws some sweets. Do not envy man the little goods he possesses; for the earth is for him the plant from which he obtains some sweets, and his mind is the dew-drop which the world colors for an instant.

Earth | Envy | Little | Man | Mind | Wisdom | World |

William Gilmore Simms

To feel oppressed by obligation is only to prove that we are incapable of a proper sentiment of gratitude. To receive favors from the unworthy is to admit that our selfishness is superior to our pride.

Gratitude | Obligation | Pride | Receive | Selfishness | Sentiment | Wisdom |

Stockholm Conference NULL

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

Earth | Good | Guests | Wisdom |

Richard and Greta Smolowe

We believe in a life continuum, and eternal life. Each incarnation or lifetime on earth is 'just a day in the classroom'... We believe the plane of greatest learning is the physical plane. It is up to all of us to make the most of each carnation. We believe that all there is in the universe is energy... and all energy forms, from subatomic particles to stars, are in a constant state of change and transformation... that interpreting energy frequencies on sensory bands creates the reality in which each life-form lives.

Change | Day | Earth | Energy | Eternal | Learning | Life | Life | Reality | Universe | Wisdom |