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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Publius Syrus

Loss pains the miser, not the wise man.

Man | Wisdom | Wise |

Publius Syrus

He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so.

Wisdom | Wise |

Friedrich Schiller, fully Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

A childlike mind, in its simplicity, practices that science of good to which the wise may be blind.

Good | Mind | Science | Simplicity | Wisdom | Wise |

Noah benShea

Is it wise to love without reason? The world... was not created as an act of reason but as an act of love. And the reason for love is not reason.

Love | Reason | Wisdom | Wise | World |

Samuel Sandmel

More people praise the Bible than read it, more read it than understand it, and more understand it than follow it.

Bible | People | Praise | Wisdom | Bible | Understand |

Sa'di (or Saadi), pen name of Abū-Muḥammad Muṣliḥ al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī, born Muslih-uddin NULL

The wise who consorts with fools will become a fool, and the fool who consorts with fools will become a greater fool.

Will | Wisdom | Wise |

Leo Stein

The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man because of its different from his own.

Man | Wisdom | Wise |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

The life of any one can by no means be changed after death; an evil life can in no wise be converted into a good life, or an infernal into an angelic life; because every spirit, from head to foot, is of the character of love, and, therefore, of his life; and to convert this life into its opposite would be to destroy the spirit utterly.

Character | Death | Destroy | Evil | Good | Life | Life | Love | Means | Spirit | Wisdom | Wise |

Terence, full Latin name Publius Terentius Afer NULL

It becomes a wise man to try words before arms.

Man | Wisdom | Wise | Words |

Constance C. Vigil

It is poverty in a rich man to despise the poor and ignorance in a wise man to despise the ignorant.

Despise | Ignorance | Man | Poverty | Wisdom | Wise |

Franz Werfel, fully Franz Viktor Werfel

No man can be wise against his own wishful thinking.

Man | Thinking | Wisdom | Wise |

Paul Dudley White

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more for an unhappy but other wise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

Psychology | Will | Wisdom | Wise | World |

Shrimad Bhagavatam, or the Bhâgavata Purâna, Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, or Bhāgavata NULL

Like the bee gathering honey from different flowers, the wise man accepts the essence of different Scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.

Good | Man | Wise |

William Wordsworth

He is oft the wisest man who is not wise at all.

Man | Wisdom | Wise |

Anselm of Canterbury, aka Saint Anselm or Archbishop of Canterbury NULL

Since all justice is rightness, the justice, which brings praise to the one who preserves it, is in nowise in any except rational beings… This justice is not rightness of knowledge, or rightness of action, but rightness of will.

Action | Justice | Knowledge | Praise | Will |