This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Colin Powell, fully Colin Luther Powell
Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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Colin Powell, fully Colin Luther Powell
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Illness is the result of imbalance. Imbalance is a result of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are creates thoughts and actions that lead to an unhealthy lifestyle and eventually illness... Illness can thus be understood as a lesson you have given yourself to help you remember who you are.
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Niels Bohr, fully Aage Niels Bohr
Any development of knowledge of the rules of nature which may help to give greater command of the powers of nature holds the hope of improving the living conditions of mankind; but also holds dangers which put our entire civilization to a serious test. The responsibilities, however, that these dangers are defeated in the right way, rests not only upon the scientist but must be shared by all circles of every nation.
Civilization | Hope | Knowledge | Mankind | Nature | Right |
Baal Shem Tov, given name Yisroel ben Eliezer
If you want to help pull a friend out of the mire, don't hesitate to get a little dirty.
C. S. Lewis, fully Clive Staples "C.S." Lewis, called "Jack" by his family
The truth is that right actions done for the wrong reasons do not help to build the internal quality or character that is called "virtue," and it is this quality or character that really matters.
C. Wright Mills, fully Charles Wright Mills
The aim of college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
Ordinarily when we talk about the human as the advanced product of evolution and the mind as being the most advanced product of evolution, there is an implication that we are advanced out of and away from the structure of the exterior world in which we have evolved, as if a separate product had been packaged, wrapped up, and delivered from a production line. The view I am presenting proposes a mechanism more and more interlocked with the totality of the exterior. This mechanism has no separate existence at all, being in a thousand ways united with and continuously interacting with the whole exterior domain. In fact there is no exterior red object with a tremendous mind linked to it by only a ray of light. The red object is a composite product of matter and mechanism evolved in permanent association with a most elaborate interlock. There is no tremor in what we call the "outside world" that is not locked by a thousand chains and gossamers to inner structures that vibrate and move with it and are a part of it. The reason for the painfulness of all philosophy is that in the past, in its necessary ignorance of the unbelievable domains of partnership that have evolved in the relationship between ourselves and the world around us, it dealt with what indeed have been a tragic separation and isolation. Of what meaning is the world without mind? The question cannot exist.
Association | Evolution | Existence | Ignorance | Meaning | Mind | Object | Philosophy | Question | Reason | Relationship | World | Association |
Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell
A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
Confidence | Need | Friends |
Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound
The inexperienced teacher, fearing his own ignorance, is afraid to admit it. Perhaps that courage only come when one knows to what extent ignorance is almost universal.
Since man created government to help secure and safeguard [inalienable] rights [from God], it follows that man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.
Government | Man | Rights | Government |
Erich Fromm, fully Erich Seligmann Fromm
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
Love | Relationship | Child |
Erich Fromm, fully Erich Seligmann Fromm
I believe that none can "save" his fellow man by making a choice for him. To help him, he can indicate the possible alternatives, with sincerity and love, without being sentimental and without illusion. The knowledge and awareness of the freeing alternatives can reawaken in an individual all his hidden energies and put him on the path to choosing respect for "life" instead of for "death."
Awareness | Choice | Individual | Knowledge | Man | Respect | Sincerity | Respect | Awareness |