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

S. Truett Cathy

Truett’s Rules: (1) It’s better to demonstrate than to dictate. If you set the example, you won’t need to set so many rules. (2) Fifty percent of the battle ends when you make up your mind.

Battle | Better | Ends | Example | Mind | Need |

Gregg Braden

The possibilities of our future are actually determined by collective choices in the present. The evidence simply states that the choice of many people, focused in a specific manner, has a direct and measurable effect on our quality of life. Quantum physics suggests that by redirecting our focus – where we place our attention – we bring a new course of events into focus while at the same time releasing an existing course of events that may no longer serve us.

Attention | Choice | Events | Evidence | Focus | Future | Life | Life | People | Present | Time |

Coco Chanel

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Leo Busacaglia

Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.

Life | Life | Love | Paradise | Passion |

Seán Bán Breathnach, aka SBB

Authentic success is knowing how simply abundant your life is exactly as it is today. Authentic success is being so grateful for the many blessings bestowed on you. Authentic success is living each day with a heart overflowing.

Blessings | Day | Heart | Knowing | Life | Life | Success |

Tommaso Campanella, baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella

The world is the book where eternal Wisdom wrote its own ideas, and the living temple where, depicting its own acts and likeness, it decorated the height and the depth with living statues; so that every spirit, to guard against profanity, should read and contemplate here art and government, and each should say: “I fill the universe, seeing God in all things.” But we, souls bound to books and dead temples, copied with many mistakes from the living, place these things before such instruction. O ills, quarrels, ignorance, labors, pains, make us aware of our falling away: O let us, in God’s name, return to the original.

Art | Books | Eternal | God | Government | Ideas | Ignorance | Spirit | Universe | Wisdom | World | Art | God |

Carlos Castaneda, fully Carlos César Salvador Arana Castaneda

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you… Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question… Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t it is of no use.

Affront | Good | Heart | Question | Think |

Cato the Younger, formally Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis NULL

The greatest comfort of any old age, and that which gives me the highest satisfaction, is the pleasing remembrance of the many benefits and friendly offices I have done to others.

Age | Comfort | Old age | Old |

Omar Bradley, fully Omar Nelson Bradley

We have too many men of science, and too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical midgets. We know more about war than we know of peace, more about killing than we know about living.

Conscience | God | Men | Mystery | Peace | Power | Science | War | Wisdom | World |

Phillips Brooks

We may call it spirituality, enthusiasm, spontaneity, outlook, insight, - many names will do, - but what we mean by all of them is essentially the same. It is the power to see the element of eternal principles in which things live, - to see the way in which each fact and act is a true wave on the great ocean of infinity, to see all life full of the life of God, - and so to lose the sense of hardness and separateness in the things which happen and things we do.

Enthusiasm | Eternal | God | Insight | Life | Life | Power | Principles | Sense | Spirituality | Will |

Sydney Cave

If morality be regarded as a mere convention, and God as the projection of men’s hopes and fears, then the way is open for the false religions which relieve the maimed will of the many from the burden of decision.

Convention | Decision | God | Men | Morality | Will | God |

Francis Crick, fully Sir Francis Harry Compton Crick

The origin of life appears to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have to be satisfied to get it going.

Life | Life |

Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson

Government is everywhere to a great extent controlled by powerful minorities, with an interest distinct from that of the mass of the people.

Government | People |

Dhammapada NULL

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do if you do not act upon them?

Good | Will | Words |

Albert E Cliffe

Your subconscious mind produces in your daily life evidence of the thoughts you send back to it. The constant repetition of fear, anxiety and worry thoughts will bring upon you the same thing multiplied many times over, but the constant practice of positive thinking, making affirmations hour by hour that God is now healing your fears and worries, will bring magnificent results... You have the ability for successful living. You have the tools. The power you use is faith and the tools are your thoughts and ideas.

Ability | Anxiety | Anxiety | Evidence | Faith | Fear | God | Ideas | Life | Life | Mind | Power | Practice | Thinking | Will | Worry | God |

Henry Clay

The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces [him]; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.

Power | Public |

John Climacus, fully Saint John Climacus, aka John of the Ladder, John Scholasticus and John Sinaites

As long as anger lives, she continues to be the fruitful mother of many unhappy children.

Anger | Children | Mother |