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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Ralph Waldo Emerson

The glory of Friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to ne when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.

Glory | Inspiration | Joy | Smile | Trust | Friendship |

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end. though you can render no reason.

Instinct | Knowledge | Opinion | Progress | Reason | Trust |

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Trust |

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The glory of Friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship. My friends have come unsought. The great God gave them to me.

Glory | God | Inspiration | Joy | Smile | Trust | Friendship | God | Friends |

Rita Mae Brown

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Creativity | Hope | Trust | Work |

Isaac Newton, fully Sir Isaac Newton

Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes, because we need them; and He proportions the frequency and the weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust in his skill, and thank him for His prescription.

Need | Skill | Trials | Trust | Wise |

Socrates NULL

The discovery of the alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves... You give your disciples not truth but only the semblance of truth; they will be heroes of many things, and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing.

Discovery | Forgetfulness | Nothing | Trust | Truth | Will | Discovery |

Thomas Kempis, aka Thomas à Kempis, Thomas von Kempen, Thomas Haemerkken or Hammerlein or Hemerken or Hämerken

Delay not the health of thy soul through trust in friends or in neighbors; for men will forget sooner than thou thinkest; it is better to make provision betimes and send before thee some good than to trust in other men’s help.

Better | Delay | Good | Health | Men | Soul | Trust | Will | Friends |

Stephen Covey, fully Stephen Richards Covey

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. We all know it. There are people we trust absolutely because we know their character.

Character | People | Trust |

Thomas Moore

We live in a world that trusts logic, and from that commitment we distrust desire; but if we lived in a world that validated desire, we would know how to trust it.

Commitment | Desire | Distrust | Logic | Trust | World |

William Hazlitt

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.

Life | Life | Little | Love | Marriage | Security | Trust | Happiness |

William Shakespeare

Love all, trust a few.

Love | Trust |

Upton Sinclair, fully Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr.

I am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing; a trust in the good faith of the process which created and sustains me. that process I call God.

Faith | God | Good | Sense | Trust |

Eric Hoffer

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Trust | World |

Erik Erickson

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Confidence | Hope | Indispensable | Life | Life | Trust | Virtue | Virtue |

Evelyn Underhill

Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing vision of the desirous heart. It interests man, but does not involve him in its processes: does not catch him up to the new and more real life which it describes. Hence the thing that matters, the living thing, has somehow escaped it; and its observations bear the same relation to reality as the art of the anatomist does to the mystery of birth

Art | Daring | Life | Life | Mystery | Reality | Trust | Vision | Art |