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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S. Parkes Cadman, fully Samuel Parkes Cadman

A little experience upsets a lot of theory.

Experience | Little | Wisdom |

Victor Cherbuliez

Men who have had a great deal of experience learn not to lose their tempers.

Experience | Men | Wisdom | Learn |

Charles Wakefield Cadman

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Experience | Little | Wisdom |

Calvin Coolidge, fully John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Ability | Discipline | Experience | Knowledge | Mind | Time | Wisdom | Work |

John Dewey

The future of religion is connected with the possibility of developing a faith in the possibilities of human experience and human relationships that will create a vital sense of the solidarity of human interests and inspire action to make that sense a reality.

Action | Experience | Faith | Future | Reality | Religion | Sense | Will | Wisdom |

Joseph Collins

A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.

Experience | Wisdom | Wise |

William Benton Clulow

Man often acquires must so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.

Experience | Ignorance | Knowledge | Man | Regret | Wisdom |

Henri Delacroix

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.

Experience | Individual | Language | Plan | Wisdom |

John Dewey

"Faith is tendency toward action." According to such a view, faith is the matrix of formulated creeds and the inspiration of endeavor... Faith in its newer sense signifies that experience itself is the sole ultimate authority.

Action | Authority | Experience | Faith | Inspiration | Sense | Wisdom |

George William Curtis

The sure foundations of the State are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue’s sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.

Culture | Degeneracy | Education | Experience | Ignorance | Knowledge | Learning | Liberty | Mankind | Wisdom |

Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder, and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed... To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the ranks of devoutly religious men.

Art | Awe | Beauty | Experience | Good | Knowledge | Men | Science | Sense | Wisdom | Wonder | Art | Beauty |

Albert Einstein

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Experience | Fear | Mystery | Religion | Wisdom |

Isaac D'Israeli

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation.

Experience | Wisdom | Wise |

Albert Einstein

The cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

Experience | Force | Research | Wisdom |

Henry Ford

If money is your only hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Ability | Experience | Hope | Knowledge | Man | Money | Reserve | Security | Will | Wisdom | World |