This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
Body | Knowledge | Men | Nature | Responsibility | Understand |
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
Counsel is to give reasons for men to act they do not know.
Illusion |
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
Take it on the mercy of God to punish unnecessarily.
Ignorance | Industry | Intelligence | Knowledge | Men |
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Neither the gifts nor the blows of fortune equal those of nature.
Trofim Lysenko, fully Trofim Denisovich Lysenko
And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy.
Hsuan Hua, aka An Tzu and Tu Lun
When you no longer make discriminations, your wisdom can appear. Your wisdom will manifest in direct proportion to the degree you have cast out discriminations. In the minds of most people, there are so many discriminations that they entirely fill the field of the eighth consciousness, which is basically pure, with filth and defilements. Once you are rid of all that garbage, your wisdom will appear.
Trofim Lysenko, fully Trofim Denisovich Lysenko
Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.
Knowledge | Theoretical |
Tommaso Campanella, baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella
When their women have brought forth children, they suckle and rear them in temples set apart for all. They give milk for two years or more as the physician orders. After that time the weaned child is given into the charge of the mistresses, if it is a female, and to the masters, if it is a male. And then with other young children they are pleasantly instructed in the alphabet, and in the knowledge of the pictures, and in running, walking, and wrestling; also in the historical drawings, and in languages; and they are adorned with a suitable garment of different colors.
In its influence on the soul, error has been compared to a magnet concealed near the ship's compass. - As in the latter case, the more favorable the winds, and the greater the diligence and skill in working the ship, the more rapidly will it be speeded on in a wrong course; and so in the former, the greater the struggle for safety, the more speedy the progress to ruin.
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
When Muslim radicals and fundamentalists look at the West, they see only the openness that makes us, in their eyes, decadent and promiscuous. They see only the openness that has produced Britney Spears and Janet Jackson. They do not see, and do not want to see, the openness - the freedom of thought and inquiry - that has made us powerful, the openness that has produced Bill Gates and Sally Ride. They deliberately define it all as decadence. Because if openness, women's empowerment, and freedom of thought and inquiry are the real sources of the West's economic strength, then the Arab-Muslim world would have to change. And the fundamentalists and extremists do not want to change.
Competition | Force | Knowledge | Work |
Thomas J. Watson, fully Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
Thomas J. Watson, fully Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then often times we find that it is comparatively simple to double or triple our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results a
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
It has always been my view that terrorism is not spawned by the poverty of money; it is spawned by the poverty of dignity. Humiliation is the most underestimated force in international relations and in human relations. It is when people or nations are humiliated that they really lash out and engage in extreme violence.
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
No policy is sustainable without a public that broadly understands why it's necessary and sees the world the way you do...
Absence | Better | Children | Global | Hate | Humanity | Kill | Knowledge | Men | Murder | News | Order | Peace | Religion | Self-realization | Terrorism | Thought | War | Murder | Thought |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
Age | Counsel | Day | Feelings | God | Government | Heart | Ideals | Justice | Knowledge | Mercy | Need | Opportunity | Politics | Right | Search | Time | Will | Government | Counsel | God | Understand |
In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.