This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.
The measure of a man is not determined by his show of outward strength or the volume of his voice or the thunder of his action. It is to be seen rather in terms of the strength of his inner self in terms of the nature and depth of his commitments the sincerity of his purpose and his willingness to continue "growing up."
Action | Character | Man | Nature | Purpose | Purpose | Self | Sincerity | Strength |
Education comes to us from nature, from men, or from things. The inner growth of our organs and faculties is the education of nature, the use we learn to make of this growth is the education of men, what we gain by our experience of our surroundings is the education of things. Thus we are each taught by three masters. If their teaching conflicts, the scholar is ill-educated and will never be at peace with himself; if their teaching agrees, he goes straight to his goal, he lives at peace with himself, he is well-educated.
Character | Education | Experience | Growth | Men | Nature | Peace | Scholar | Will | Learn |
I have learned by experience that no man’s character can be eventually injured but by his own acts.
Character | Experience | Man |