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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H. L. Hollis

The future holds something for the man who keeps his faith in it.

Faith | Future | Man | Wisdom |

Theodore Gottlieb von Hippel the Younger

The soul has, living apart from its corporeal envelope, a profound habitual meditation which prepares it for a future life.

Future | Life | Life | Meditation | Soul | Wisdom |

Horace, full name Quintus Horatius Flaccus NULL

Seize the present; trust the future as little as you may... or... Sieze the day, with little trust in tomorrow (Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.)

Day | Future | Little | Present | Tomorrow | Trust | Wisdom |

Archibald Quincy Jones

The medical profession tells us that there are four conditions which must be met if we are to have any chance of leading a happy life: physical security, social recognition, adventure, emotional security. In today's highly technical and scientific life, these four considerations become increasingly important, but we should add one vital ingredient: love. Love of our fellow man, love for our work, and the conviction that this love insures the future for all of us.

Adventure | Chance | Future | Happy | Important | Life | Life | Love | Man | Security | Wisdom | Work |

John F. Kennedy, fully John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy

Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.

Determination | Disease | Future | Hope | Means | Mockery | Poverty | Self | Self-determination | Wisdom |

Margaret Jenkins

Every pupil you have carries in his mind or heart or conscience a bit of you. Your influence, your example, your ideas and values keep marching on - how far into the future and into what realms of our spacious universe you will never know.

Conscience | Example | Future | Heart | Ideas | Influence | Mind | Universe | Will | Wisdom |

Lyndon Johnson, fully Lyndon Baines Johnson, aka LBJ

A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.

Children | Faith | Future | Government | People | Trust | Wisdom | Government |

Louis Kossuth, also Lajos Kossuth, fully Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva

I consider that it is on instruction and education that the future security and direction of the destiny of every nation chiefly and fundamentally rests.

Destiny | Education | Future | Security | Wisdom | Instruction |

Walter Savage Landor

Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.

Appetite | Belief | Future | Life | Life | Reason | Wisdom |

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

Conformity | Majority | Security | Success | Wisdom | World |

Charles F. Kettering, fully Charles Franklin Kettering

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

Future | Rest | Will | Wisdom |

Leonard Lauder, fully Leonard A. Lauder

The future is not a gift - it is an achievement.

Achievement | Future | Wisdom |

Abraham Lincoln

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Day | Future | Time | Wisdom |

Henry C. Link

The true security was found to be family unity, not physical safety.

Family | Security | Unity | Wisdom |

Douglas MacArthur

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Earth | Opportunity | Security | Wisdom |

André Maurois, born born Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog

There is no liberty without security, and no security without unity.

Liberty | Security | Unity | Wisdom |