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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Philo, aka Philo of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, Philo Judaeus of Alexandria, Yedidia, "Philon", and Philo the Jew NULL

A teacher should give his pupil opportunity for independent practice without suggestions from himself, and thus set upon him the stamp of indelible memory in its purest form.

Character | Memory | Opportunity | Practice | Teacher |

Gordon-Michael Scallion

All life is initiation. Each experience, each act, deed, especially thoughts, are a portion of initiation. Initiation then is the process whereby the entity - the soul force, is given the opportunity to develop spiritually. This means, that when the soul chooses to improve itself - to move towards a greater light, the soul body so changes its vibration as to remove from its spiritual fabric those attachments detrimental to its path upward.

Body | Character | Experience | Force | Life | Life | Light | Means | Opportunity | Soul |

Ani NULL

The opportunity having passed, one may seek (in vain) to seize another.

Opportunity | Wisdom |

George Matthew Adams

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

Argument | Good | Opportunity | Wisdom |

Apocrypha NULL

The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure; and he that hath little business shall become wise.

Business | Leisure | Little | Man | Opportunity | Wisdom | Wise | Business |

Charles William "C.W." Wendte

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance.

Character | Life | Life | Opportunity | Perseverance | Success | Talent |

Brown v. Board of Education NULL

Today education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments. Compulsory school attendance laws and the great expenditures for education both demonstrate our recognition of the importance of education to our democratic society. It is required in the performance of our most basic public responsibilities, even service in the armed forces. It is the very foundation of good citizenship. Today it is a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values, in preparing him for later professional training, and in helping him to adjust normally to his environment. In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.

Awakening | Citizenship | Education | Good | Important | Life | Life | Opportunity | Public | Right | Service | Society | Training | Wisdom | Child |

William Ellery Channing

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

Government | Men | Office | Opportunity | Wisdom | Work | Government | Happiness |

Edgar Cayce, known as the "Sleeping Prophet"

When you are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.

Opportunity | Wisdom |

Roy D. Chapin, Jr., fully Roy Dikeman Chapin, Jr.

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Luck | Opportunity | Time | Wisdom | Luck |

Robert Collier

When difficulties confront you, baptize them opportunity and set the man inside you to finding the way to turn them from difficulties into opportunities.

Man | Opportunity | Wisdom |

John Dewey

It is in education more than anywhere else that we have sincerely striven to carry into execution "the Great American Dream": the vision of a longer and fuller life for the ordinary man, a life of widened freedom, of equal opportunity for each to make of himself all that he is capable of becoming.

Education | Freedom | Life | Life | Man | Opportunity | Vision | Wisdom |

Robert Collier

The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.

Beginning | Nothing | Opportunity | Service | Wisdom |

John Dewey

We cannot have jobs and opportunities if we surrender our freedom to Government control... We can have both opportunity and security within the framework of a free society.

Control | Freedom | Government | Opportunity | Security | Society | Surrender | Wisdom | Government |

Robert Collier

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Opportunity | Right | Service | Wisdom |

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Nothing is so often irrevocably neglected as an opportunity of daily occurrence.

Nothing | Opportunity | Wisdom |