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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Suzanne Gordon

Somehow feminists who want to transform our culture, not just adapt to it, have to convince young women that embracing feminism does not mean embracing victimhood, that you can be for others and still be for yourself, that you can “make it” in bed and in the marketplace, that women can indeed be visible without subjugating their souls behind traditional female - or male - masks.

Culture | Wisdom |

John Hallock

I've noticed two things about men who get big salaries. They are almost invariably men who, in conversation or in conference, are adaptable. They quickly get the other fellow's view. They are more eager to do this than to express their own ideas. Also, they state their own point of view convincingly.

Conversation | Ideas | Men | Wisdom |

Harrison Eugene Havens

The bravest and best men of all times have perished in the struggles against tyranny and despotism, and free government has never secured even a feeble existence save at a most fearful cost. The experiment of republican government in our own country is similar to that of all others. Here, however, liberty has won her grandest triumphs. Here freedom is enthroned securely and is the unchallenged boon of every inhabitant. But we contemplate the cost of victory with mournful and pitying hearts.

Cost | Existence | Experiment | Freedom | Government | Liberty | Men | Tyranny | Wisdom | Government |

Frederick Henry Hedge

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or a Shakespeare.

Imagination | Man | Men | Power | Wisdom |

Robert Greene

Empty vessels have the loudest sounds, and cowards prattle more than men of worth.

Men | Wisdom | Worth |

Philip G. Hamerton, fully Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or literature or art. It is by; these private friendships, even more than by public performance, that the tradition of sound thinking and great doing is perpetuated from age to age.

Age | Art | Literature | Men | Public | Science | Sound | Thinking | Tradition | Wisdom | Old |

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The destiny of any nation, at any given time, depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty.

Destiny | Men | Time | Wisdom |

Robert Greene

Love makes all men orators.

Love | Men | Wisdom |

Jean Guéhenno, given name Marcel-Jules-Marie Guéhenno

Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their... pretensions to be the only religious people.

Men | Nothing | People | Religion | Wisdom |

Benjamin R. Haydon

If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainly of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.

Men | Right | Wisdom | Wrong |

Heinrich Heine

Wise men think out their thoughts; fools proclaim them.

Men | Wisdom | Wise | Think |

William Gurnall

A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.

Boldness | Men | Sin | Will | Wisdom | Afraid |

Heinrich Heine

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Action | Men | Thought | Wisdom |

Burke Aaron Hinsdale

Do not trust to what lazy men call the spur of the occasion.

Men | Trust | Wisdom |

George Stillman Hillard

A great man is a gift, in some measure of a revelation of God. A great man, living for high ends, is the divinest thing that can be seen on earth. The value and interest of history are derived chiefly from the lives and services of the eminent men whom it commemorates.

Earth | Ends | God | History | Man | Men | Revelation | Wisdom | Value |

Thomas Hobbes

Such is the nature of men that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned, yet they will hardly believe they may be many so wise as themselves.

Men | Nature | Will | Wisdom | Wise |

Thomas Hobbes

Desire of knowledge, and arts of peace, inclineth men to obey a common power: for such desire containeth a desire of leisure, and consequently protection from other power than their own.

Desire | Knowledge | Leisure | Men | Peace | Power | Wisdom |