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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Richard “Rick” Stone

Real listening is the creation of a sacred space in which another’s words are contained and transformed into hallowed speech. Like remembering, this form of listening is also intentional.

Listening | Sacred | Space | Speech | Words |

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Is not music the food of love?

Love | Music |

Baird T. Spalding

Words are things. Thoughts are things. Where your thoughts are, you are. When we learn to discipline and control our thoughts and feelings, and use only the positive, constructive words, sent forth with divine love, our body and mind respond to that righteousness – right-use-ness. The right use and selection of words is of vital importance but equally important is the feeling behind those words, for feeling is the motivating power that makes the words live.

Body | Control | Discipline | Feelings | Important | Love | Mind | Power | Right | Righteousness | Words | Learn |

Zoroaster, aka Zarathustra or Zarathushtra Spitama NULL

Purity is for man, next to life, the greatest good, that purity that is procured by the law of Mazda to him who cleanses his own self with good thoughts, words and deeds.

Deeds | Good | Law | Life | Life | Man | Purity | Self | Words |

Thomas De Witt Talmage

Among the first things created was the bird. Why? Because God wanted the world to have music at the start.

God | Music | World | God |

Valmiki NULL

Truth all religion comprehends, in truth alone is justice placed, in truth the words of God are based.

God | Justice | Religion | Truth | Words | God |

Henry Nelson Wieman

If by prayer I mean the power of words to persuade God to do things, then prayer is futile and foolish. One might utter the words of the most devout prayer that was ever breathed and yet not be praying at all. It is the attitude of the personality which is the prayer, not the words.

God | Personality | Power | Prayer | Words | God |

Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Little | Words |

Helen Keller. aka Helen Adams Keller

All about me may be silence and darkness, yet within me, in the spirit, is music and brightness, and color flashes through all my thoughts.

Darkness | Music | Silence | Spirit |

Aaron Copland

If you want to understand music better, you can do nothing more important than to listen to it.

Better | Important | Music | Nothing | Understand |

W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer

Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.

Imagination | Words |

Aaron Copland

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

Music | Time |

Charlotte Elizabeth Whitton

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Deeds | Good | Words |