This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans
It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.
Convictions | Words |
Golda Meir, originally named Goldie Mabovitch, later Goldie Myerson
The vitality of the words depends on the hearts intention.
Words |
George Szell, originally György Széll, György Endre Szél, or Georg Szell
In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
Words |
George Orwell, pen name of Eric Arthur Blair
The whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought. In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible because there will be no words in which to express it… Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller.
Consciousness | Little | Will | Words |
Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth
For many men, words come before thought. They only know what they think after realising what they've said.
Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word.
Varied interpretations of the same words by those with dissimilar mentalities has been the frequent cause of historic struggles.
Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.
Harold Geneen, fully Harold "Hal" Sydney Geneen
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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No one can possibly simulate you or me with a system that is less complex than you or me. The products that we produce may be viewed as a simulation, and while products can endure in ways that our bodies cannot, they can never capture the richness, complexity, or depth of purpose of their creator. Beethoven once remarked that the music he had written was nothing compared with the music he had heard.
Helen Keller. aka Helen Adams Keller
Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation. "Let us eat, drink and be merry," says the pessimist, "for to-morrow we die." If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.
Day | Duty | Fear | Forgetfulness | Individual | Life | Life | Light | Music | Pessimism |
Henrik Ibsen, aka Henrik Johan Ibsen
A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.
Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing.
Life | Life | Meditation | Words |