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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G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well.

Fame | Hope | Love | Man | Money | Wisdom |

Albert Einstein

The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals, who, however, see in the service of community their highest life problem.

Education | Life | Life | Service | Thinking | Training | Wisdom |

Thomas Dreier

That person lives in hell who gets what he desires too soon. Whether he finds his happiness in wealth, power, fame or women, or in a combination of all, that happiness will be meaningless if it robs him of his desire. Heaven is a country through which we are permitted to search eagerly and with hope for what we want.

Desire | Fame | Heaven | Hell | Hope | Power | Search | Wealth | Will | Wisdom | Happiness |

Eugene Gifford Grace

If I were to prescribe one process in the training of men which is fundamental to success in any direction, it would be thoroughgoing training in the habit of observation. It is a habit which every one of us should be seeking ever more to perfect.

Habit | Men | Observation | Success | Training | Wisdom |

Bernard M. Martin, D.D

To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which god has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold.

God | Gold | Loneliness | People | Training | Wisdom | God |

Alexander Meiklejohn

One of the greatest failures of our contemporary training of teachers is that they become mere technicians... They do not learn the beliefs and motives and values for the sake of which the classroom exists.

Motives | Training | Wisdom | Learn |

Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Tomorrow | Training | Truth | Will | Wisdom |

Propertius, fully Sextus Propertius NULL

Time magnifies everything after death; a man’s fame is increased as it passes from mouth to mouth after his burial.

Burial | Death | Fame | Man | Time | Wisdom |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The training of children is a profession where we must know to lose time in order to gain it.

Children | Order | Time | Training | Wisdom |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to lose time in order to gain it.

Children | Order | Time | Training | Wisdom |

William Makepeace Thackeray

Life is the soul's nursery - its training place for the destinies of eternity.

Eternity | Life | Life | Soul | Training | Wisdom |

Jacob Viner

Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and vigorous training to accomplish that end.

Men | Nature | Training | Wisdom |

John Dewey

The best and the deepest moral training is that which one gets by having to enter into proper relationships with others… Present educational systems, so far as they destroy or neglect this unity, render it difficult or impossible to get any genuine, regular moral training.

Destroy | Neglect | Present | Training | Unity |

William James

Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up, a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again. Continuity of training is the great means of making the nervous system act infallible right.

Habit | Life | Life | Means | Right | System | Training | Will |

Antony Jay, fully Sir Antony Rupert Jay

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

Training | Leadership |

Li Ju-chen

Lust for fame and fortune is like an intoxication. While a man is intoxicated, he doesn’t realize it. It’s only after it is all over that he realizes that everything is like an illusion. If men could realize this all the time, there would be much less trouble on earth, and there would be much happier people too.

Earth | Fame | Fortune | Illusion | Lust | Man | Men | People | Time | Trouble |

Li Ju-chen

Wealth and fame are of dubious value when we think that life is like a fleeting dream.

Fame | Life | Life | Wealth | Think | Value |