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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Jeremy Bentham

Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity. It keeps the judge himself, while trying, under trial. Under the auspices of publicity, the cause in the court of law, and the appeal to the court of public opinion, are going on at the same time... It is through publicity alone that justice becomes the mother of security.

Cause | Justice | Law | Mother | Opinion | Public | Security | Soul | Time |

John Bright

Ignorance is the mother of prejudice.

Ignorance | Mother | Prejudice |

John Adams

An ounce of mother wit is worth a pound of clergy.

Mother | Wit | Worth |

Joseph Chilton Pearce, aka Joe

When brain and heart frequencies entrain, they enter a synchronous, resonant, or coherent wave pattern. Though rare in adults, such entrainment is critical to full development of our human nature… The same entrainment of heart frequencies occurs between mother and infant during breast-feeding and other close body contact.

Body | Heart | Human nature | Mother | Nature |

Maltbie Babcock, fully Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father’s house.

Father | Mother | Think |

Plato NULL

The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

Invention | Mother | Necessity |

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Necessity! thou mother of the world.

Mother | Necessity | World |

Ptah-hotep, aka Ptahhotpe or Ptah-Hotep NULL

Beware of covetousness, which is a malady, diseaseful, incurable. Intimacy with it is impossible, it makes the sweet friend bitter, it alienates the trusted one from his master, it makes father and mother mad… it divorces a man’s wife.

Father | Friend | Man | Mother | Wife |

Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL

Laughing at his own son, who got his mother, and by his mother's means his father also, to indulge him, he told him that he had the most power of any one in Greece: "For the Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians, your mother commands me, and you command your mother."

Father | Means | Mother | Power | Rest | Will |

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There never was child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Mother | Child |

Robert Burton

Employment, which Galen calls "Nature's physician," is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.

Indolence | Mother | Nature | Happiness |

Saint Benedict of Nursia NULL

Discretion is the mother of virtue.

Discretion | Mother | Virtue | Virtue |

Robert Orben

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

Credit | Father | Life | Life | Mother |

William Temple, fully Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet

Leisure and solitude are the best effect of riches, because mother of thought. Both are avoided by most rich men, who seek company and business, which are signs of being weary of themselves.

Business | Leisure | Men | Mother | Riches | Solitude | Thought |

Sophocles NULL

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

Children | Life | Life | Mother |

Talmud or The Talmud NULL

A child tells in the street what its father and mother say at home.

Father | Mother | Child |

Thomas Fuller

Security is the mother of danger and the grandmother of destruction.

Danger | Mother | Security | Danger |