This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.
Claudian, latin Claudius Claudianus NULL
Expel avarice, the mother of all wickedness, who, always thirst for more, opens wide her jaws for gold.
Avarice | Gold | Mother | Wickedness |
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
Conscience | Invention | Mother | Guilty |
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Mother |
My mother used to say, "He who angers you, conquers you!" But my mother was a saint.
Mother |
Erich Fromm, fully Erich Seligmann Fromm
In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only tolerate, she must wish and support the child’s separation.
It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters. We become enamored with men’s theories such as the idea of preschool training outside the home for young children. Not only does this put added pressure on the budget, but it places young children in an environment away from mother’s influence. Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children’s needs. That decision can be most shortsighted. It is mother’s influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child’s basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother’s loving example to choose righteousness. How vital are mother’s influence and teaching in the home—and how apparent when neglected!
Children | Decision | Example | Influence | Mother | Theories | Training | Truth | Work | Child |
Erich Fromm, fully Erich Seligmann Fromm
By incestuous symbiosis is meant the tendency to stay tied to the mother and to her equivalents — blood, family, tribe — to fly from the unbearable weight of responsibility, of freedom, of awareness, and to be protected and loved in a state of certainty dependence that the individual pays for with the ceasing of his own human development.
Dependence | Individual | Mother |
Giordano Bruno, born Filippo Bruno
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
Holbrook Jackson, fully George Holbrook Jackson
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans
Even people whose lives have been made various by learning, sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views of life, on their faith in the Invisible—nay, on the sense that their past joys and sorrows are a real experience, when they are suddenly transported to a new land, where by beings around them know nothing of their history, and share none of their ideas—where their mother earth shows another lap, and human life has other forms than those on which their souls have been nourished. Minds that have been unhinged from their old faith and love, have perhaps sought this Lethean influence of exile, in which the past becomes dreamy because its symbols have all vanished, and the present too is dreamy because it is linked with no memories.
Earth | Faith | Influence | Life | Life | Mother | Nothing | Past | People | Present | Sense | Old |
Jean Paul, born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, aka Jean Paul Richter
Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all other mothers venerable.
Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
One of the things we know about fear is that you can always bring it back. So if either a rat or a person, with the previously learned fear, is exposed to stress, the fear will return. And so if a patient with a fear of heights is doing fine because of the therapy, and then the patient's mother dies and it's very stressful and so the phobia comes back.
Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.