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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Theodore M. Hesburgh, fully Theodore Martin Hesburgh

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Children | Father | Important | Love | Mother | Wisdom |

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age.

Age | Father | Men | Wisdom | World |

Louis Kossuth, also Lajos Kossuth, fully Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva

I know that there is one God in heaven, the Father of all humanity, and heaven is therefore one. I know that there is one sun in the sky, which gives light to all the world. As there is unity in God, and unity in the light, so is there unity in the principles of freedom. Whatever it is broken, wherever a shadow is cast upon the sunny rays of the sun of liberty, there is always danger of free principles everywhere in the world.

Danger | Father | Freedom | God | Heaven | Humanity | Liberty | Light | Principles | Unity | Wisdom | World | Danger | God |

Abraham Lincoln

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

Father | Love | Teach | Wisdom | Work |

Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.

Children | Father | Need | Wisdom |

Francis Quarles

Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest, lest the greater part of what thou believest be the least part of what is true. Where lies are easily admitted, the father of lies will not easily be excluded.

Father | News | Will | Wisdom |

Anne Sexton

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Father | Wisdom |

Terence, full Latin name Publius Terentius Afer NULL

This is what a father ought to be about: helping his son to form the habit of doing right on his own initiative, rather than because he's afraid of some serious consequence.

Father | Habit | Initiative | Right | Wisdom | Afraid |

William Allen White

Everyone expects to go further than his father went; everyone expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart - to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.

Better | Father | Heart | Impulse | Life | Life | Past | Wisdom | Worth |

Phil Batchelor

A father watched as his son struggled and strained to move a large rock. “Are you using all your strength?” “No, you’re not. You have not asked me to help.”

Father | Strength |

Carl Zimmerer

Only mushrooms can grow in the shadow of mighty trees, but shrubs need light in order to grow. If you recognize your father is a tree, you should move away and out of his shadow.

Father | Light | Need | Order | Wisdom |

Henri Frédéric Amiel

The religion of a child depends on what its mother and father are, and not on what they say.

Father | Mother | Religion | Child |

Alan Stuart Blinder

Our American system of government by lobbyist guarantees us a form of taxation with representation that the founding father did not foresee: special interests get the representation while the broad public gets the taxation.

Father | Government | Public | System | Government |

Nikolai Berdyaev, fully Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev, also spelled Nichlas Berdiaev

Man’s greatest duty is to love God: that is the first commandment. The second is to love his neighbor. And it is possible for two creatures to love one another only because God exists and is their common Father – it is the divine image and likeness that is loveable in our fellow-men.

Duty | Father | God | Love | Man | Men | God |

William Wordsworth

The child is father of the man.

Father | Man | Wisdom | Child |

Wang Hui-yueh

Since we were all born of the same father of souls, why should there be any distinction between you and me or between others and ourselves?

Distinction | Father |

Robert M. Linder, fully Robert Mitchell Linder

Supported by the authority of all institutions, parenthood has come to amount to little more than a campaign against individuality. Every father and every mother trembles lest an offspring, in act or thought, should be different from his fellows; and the smallest display of uniqueness in a child becomes the signal for the application of drastic measures aimed at stamping out that small fire of noncompliance by which personal distinctness is expressed. In an atmosphere of anxiety, in a climate of apprehension, the parental conspiracy against children is planned.

Anxiety | Anxiety | Authority | Children | Conspiracy | Display | Father | Individuality | Little | Mother | Thought | Child |

Abraham Lincoln

Fourscore and seven years ago our father brought forth upon this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Father | Liberty | Men |