Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Related Quotes

W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden

In a national capital Mirabeau and his set attacked mystery ; the packed galleries roared and history marched to the drums of a clear idea, the aim of the Rational City, quick to admire, quick to tire.

Change | Fortune | Land | Men |

W. Clement Stone, fully William Clement Stone

You are called a square peg in a round hole when you work or engage in activities that do not come naturally, and that are inwardly repellent. In such an unhappy situation you can change your position and place ourselves find in an environment that is pleasing to you.

Life | Life | Success | Will |

W. Clement Stone, fully William Clement Stone

You become alerted to opportunities that will help you achieve your objectives as they present themselves in your everyday experiences. because you know what you want, you are more likely to recognize these opportunities.

Change | Position | Work |

Walker Percy

As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.

Self | System |

Walker Percy

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

Age | Man | Singularity | Work | Old |

Vladimir Nabokov, fully Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

A cluster of stars palely glowed above us, between the silhouettes of long thin leaves; that vibrant sky seemed as naked as she was under her light frock. I saw her face in the sky, strangely distinct, as if it emitted a faint radiance of its own.

Change | Fallacy | Rest |

Vladimir Nabokov, fully Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which rest the love-and lung-condemned.

Change | Fallacy |

Vladimir Nabokov, fully Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Why do those people guess so much and shave so little, and are so disdainful of hearing aids?

Change | Fallacy | Happy | Hope |

Rig Veda, or The Rigveda

One should always help the weak, the destitute and the impoverished.

Body | Dirty |

Václav Havel

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

William James

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

Blame | Habit | Life | Life | Soul | Thinking | Govern | Think |

William Shakespeare

Nothing can or shall content my soul till I am evened with him, wife for wife, or failing so, yet that I put the Moor at least into a jealousy so strong that judgment cannot cure.

Design |

Elihu Root

No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.

Fighting | Love | Race |

Elyn Saks

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

Family | Law | Nothing | People | Public | Safe | Stigma | Work | Friends |

Eric S. Raymond

If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.

Machines | Present |

Eric S. Raymond

Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone.

Capacity | Individual | Machines | Power | Talking |

Eugene Peterson

Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God – it whets our appetite.

Evelyn Underhill

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

Action | Beginning | Experience | God | Need | Order | Present | Spirit | God |

Italian Proverbs

Rain on the day you get married brings good luck.

Consciousness | Power | Understand |

Italian Proverbs

The soldier is well paid for doing mischief.

Administration | Decision | Global | Health | Policy | Right | Rights | Struggle |