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

V. S. Pritchett, fully Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.

Genius | Greed | Mind | Wisdom |

Matthew B Ridgway, fully Matthew Bunker Ridgway

Physical courage is never in short supply in a fighting army. Moral courage sometimes is.

Courage | Fighting | Wisdom |

Charles B. Rogers

To give great attention to details is one mark of the genius - to putter with trifles is not.

Attention | Genius | Trifles | Wisdom |

Sydney Smith

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Calamity | Courage | Order | Wisdom | Calamity |

Ralph Waldo Trine

He who remains cheerful in spirit and sees only the good side of all things, who never allows himself to be spiritually downcast but keeps his head high and courage in his heart, he sets in motion those fine, still powers, which make every step through life The more one loves the nearer he approaches to God, for God is the spirit of infinite love.

Courage | God | Good | Heart | Life | Life | Love | Spirit | Wisdom | God |

Edwin Percy Whipple

Talent repeats; genius creates.

Genius | Wisdom |

Paul Valéry, fully Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry

Every enthusiast contains a false enthusiast, every lover a false lover, every man of genius a false man of genius, and, as a rule, every fault its counterfeit: this is necessary in order to assure the continuity of one's personality, not only in the eyes of others but in one's own - in order to understand oneself, count upon oneself, think of oneself; in order, in short, to be oneself.

Fault | Genius | Man | Order | Personality | Rule | Wisdom | Fault | Think | Understand |

Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Courage | Dreams |

John Elof Boodin

We are material in the hands of the Genius of the universe for a still larger destiny that we cannot see in the everlasting rhythm of worlds.

Destiny | Genius | Universe |

Owen D. Young

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

Change | Courage | Day | Faith | Heart | Mind | Spirit | Vision | Wisdom |

Gilbert Keith "G.K." Chesteron

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Courage | Life | Life | Little | Man | Order | Paradox |

Tom Butler-Bowdon

If you have a single powerful purpose, you will have the courage to act on your ideas.

Courage | Ideas | Purpose | Purpose | Will |

Régis Debray, fully Jules Régis Debray

The prime role of a leader is to offer an example of courage and sacrifice.

Courage | Example | Sacrifice | Leader |