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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Donald Woods Winnicott

Creativity is the retention throughout life of something that belongs properly to infant experience: the ability to create the world. . . . By creative living I mean not getting killed or annihilated all the time by compliance or by reacting to the world that impinges; I mean seeing everything afresh all the time… When we are surprised at ourselves we are being creative, and we find we can trust our own unexpected originality.

Ability | Compliance | Creativity | Experience | Life | Life | Originality | Time | Trust | World |

Bernard Edmonds

To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed.

Beauty | Courage | Mind | Strength | Trust | Will | Beauty |

Irving Oyle

Whatever you put your trust in can be the precipitating agent for your cure.

Trust |

Aesop NULL

Do not trust flatterers.

Trust |

Aesop NULL

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Advice | Man | Trust |

Aesop NULL

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Truth | Will |

Albert Camus

Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into a liar than into a person telling the truth. Truth, like light, is blinding. Falsehood, on the other hand, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Falsehood | Light | Object | Truth |

Alexander Hamilton

Patience does not mean indifference. We may work and trust and wait, but we ought not to be idle or careless while waiting.

Indifference | Patience | Trust | Waiting | Work |

Alfred Adler

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Events | Life | Life | Trust | Words |

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, born Anne Spencer Morrow

Life is a gift, given in trust – like a child.

Life | Life | Trust |

Aristotle NULL

Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a person's own breast. Trust thyself.

Intuition | People | Right | Sense | Trust | Wisdom | Wise |

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

I repeat … that all power is a trust - that we are accountable for its exercise - that, from the people, and for the people, all springs, and all must exist.

People | Power | Trust |