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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Charles W. Eliot

Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarded who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.

Evil | Hope | Life | Life | Right | Wisdom | Wrong |

Albert Einstein

There exists a passion for comprehension, just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children but gets lost in most people later on. Without this passion, there would be neither mathematics nor natural science.

Children | Mathematics | Music | Passion | People | Wisdom |

Everett Dirksen, fully Everett McKinley Dirksen

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums who can't and those in cemeteries.

Change | Life | Life | People | Wisdom |

Faith Domergue

Some people study all their life, and at their death they have learned everything except to think.

Death | Life | Life | People | Study | Wisdom |

Albert Einstein

The only rational way of educating is to be an example - if one can't help it, a warning example.

Example | Warning | Wisdom |

Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

Awe | Curiosity | Day | Enough | Eternity | Important | Life | Life | Little | Mystery | Reality | Reason | Wisdom |

Frederic Eggleston, fully Sir Frederic William Eggleston

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Failure | People | Success | Wisdom |

Ximénès Doudan

The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.

Faith | Man | People | Truth | Wisdom |

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humor, curiosity, and self-importance.

Curiosity | Good | Humor | People | Self | Sympathy | Wisdom |

Henry Havelock Ellis

It is certainly strange to observe... how many people seem to feel vain of their own unqualified optimism when the place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Optimism | People | Wisdom |

Albert Einstein

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Equanimity | People | Wisdom |

Nathaniel Emmons

Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing.

Better | Loathing | Longing | People | Wisdom |

Joseph Farrell, fully Joseph Patrick Farrell

Most people like praise. Many people have an unreasonable fear of administering it; it is part of the puritanical dislike for anything that is agreeable - to others. When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

Better | Fear | People | Praise | Wisdom |

François Fénelon, fully Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon

The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.

People | Wisdom | Words |