Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Related Quotes

Joel A. Barker

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Action | Change | Time | Vision | World |

Judith Barad

We don't need a self-help guru to remind us we all have the power to change our lives. Would you like to lose weight or tone your body? Want to be kinder, gentler? How about becoming more intellectual, or more creative? No one can stop us from reaching these goals but ourselves. We set our own limits.

Body | Change | Goals | Need | Power | Self |

David B Anthony

Replacing religious institutions that are thousands of years old and hostile to reason with a reason-based belief system would transform society in a positive way more than any mere political change or economic-policy change ever could.

Belief | Change | Policy | Reason | Society | System | Society | Old |

Carol Burnett, fully Carol Creighton Burnett

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Change | Life | Life |

Henri Bergson, aka Henri-Louis Bergson

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Change |

Harry Emerson Fosdick

The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.

Change | Life | Life | Religion | Theology | Thought | Truth |

Doc Childre

What is required for effective change is continuity of sincere effort to release and let go of inefficient thought patterns from the past.

Change | Effort | Past | Thought | Thought |

Albert Einstein

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. We will not solve the problems of the world from the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. More than anything else, this new century demands new thinking: We must change our materially based analyses of the world around us to include broader, more multidimensional perspectives.

Change | Mind | Problems | Sacred | Society | Thinking | Will | World | Society |

Marva Collins, born Marva Delores Nettles

I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.

Change | World |

Irwin Corey, known as Professor Irwin Corey

If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.

Change |

David Dibble

Being aware of what your mind thinks, believes, and remembers gives you the chance to change your reality. As on the inside, so on the outside.

Chance | Change | Mind | Reality |

James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras

Envisioned future is what we aspire to become, to achieve, to create-something that will require significant change and progress to attain.

Change | Future | Progress | Will |

Freddie Laker, fully Sir Frederick Alfred Laker

The man who doesn't change his mind doesn't think.

Change | Man | Mind |

Daniel V. Papero, aka "Dan"

Families in crisis will do everything, exhaust every resource, except to change themselves!

Change | Will | Crisis |