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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the tale of Orpheus; it move stones and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes not victories without it.

Enthusiasm | Genius | Nothing | Sincerity | Truth | Wisdom |

Jean de La Bruyère

The genius of conversation consists much less in showing a great deal of it, than in causing it to be discovered in others.

Conversation | Genius | Wisdom |

Jean de La Bruyère

A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion, and hold himself on a level with the highest; this is less easy for him who is engaged; it seems as if marriage put the whole world in their proper rank.

Genius | Man | Marriage | Position | Rank | Wife | Wisdom | World |

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

Common Sense | Genius | Nature | Sense | Wisdom |

Pierre Charron

Whatever difference there may appear to be in man's fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and ill in all, that makes them equal.

Compensation | Good | Man | Wisdom |

Thomas Buxton, fully Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, between the great and the insignificant, is energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

Death | Determination | Energy | Men | Purpose | Purpose | Wisdom |

François-René de Chateaubriand, fully François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand

Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste genius is only sublime folly.

Folly | Genius | Good | Sense | Taste | Wisdom |

Salvador Dalí, fully Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech

When the creation of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.

Doubt | Fault | Genius | Little | Mind | Sound | Wisdom |

G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton

There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.

Wisdom |

Bill Copeland

You have removed most of the road blocks to success when you have learned the difference between motion and direction.

Success | Wisdom |

Calvin Coolidge, fully John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.

Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "Press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race

Determination | Education | Genius | Human race | Men | Nothing | Persistence | Problems | Race | Will | Wisdom | World | Talent |

John Dewey

In the traditional method, the child must say something that he has merely learned. There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and having to say something.

Method | Wisdom | World | Child |

John Dewey

This which marks the difference between bestiality and humanity, between culture and merely physical nature, is because man remembers, preserving and recording his experiences.

Culture | Humanity | Man | Nature | Wisdom |

G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Man | Wants | Wisdom |

Edward Dyer, fully Sir Edward Dyer

O liberty, parent of happiness, a celestial born when the first man became a living soul; his sacred genius thou.

Genius | Liberty | Man | Sacred | Soul | Wisdom | Parent |

Isaac D'Israeli

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

Age | Education | Ends | Genius | Indispensable | Nothing | Wisdom |