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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Tanhum ben Hanilai

A physician restricts the diet of only those patients whom he expects to recover. So God prescribed dietary laws for those who have hope of a future life. Others may eat anything.

Diet | Future | God | Hope | Life | Life | Wisdom | God |

E.H. (Edward Henry) Harriman, fully Edward Henry "Ned" Harriman

It is never safe to look in to the future with eyes of fear.

Fear | Future | Safe | Wisdom |

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 |

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 |

Samuel M. Lindsay

Belief in immortality gives dignity to life and enables us to endure cheerfully those trials which come to us all. As the thought of immortality occupies our minds, we gain a clearer conception of duty and are inspired to cultivate character. Living for the future is not coward's philosophy, but an inspiration to noble and unselfish activity.

Belief | Character | Dignity | Duty | Future | Immortality | Inspiration | Life | Life | Philosophy | Thought | Trials | Wisdom | Thought |

Samuel David Luzzatto, aka by acronym of SHaDaL or SHeDaL

Society's preservation and man's happiness depend on illusion. Nature itself, which certainly represents the will of God, deludes us in many respects, as when it leads us by the cords of love to reproduce the race. If a youth would consider the trouble in rearing a family, not one in a thousand would marry, but nature closes our eyes to the future (and indeed, wherever popular knowledge rises, the birth rate declines). The same is true of the other passions, which nature utilizes to deceive man and goad them toward the attainment of ends which, when attained, turn out to be but vanity.

Attainment | Birth | Ends | Family | Future | God | Illusion | Knowledge | Love | Man | Nature | Race | Society | Will | Wisdom | Youth | Youth | Trouble | Happiness |

Walter Lippmann

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

Future | Life | Life | Past | Reason | Wisdom |