This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Each generation of Americans has outstripped its parents in education, in literacy, and in economic attainment. For the first time in the history of our country, the educational skills of one generation will not surpass, will not equal, will not even approach those of their parents.
Attainment | Education | History | Parents | Time | Will | Wisdom |
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered, which can seldom or never be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
Even if someone knew the entire physical history of the world, and every mental event were identical with a physical, it would not follow that he could predict or explain a single mental event (so described, of course.)
God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best.
Excellence | God | Good | Impulse | Life | Life | Longing | Soul | Time | Wisdom | Excellence |
There is never enough time to say our last word - the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.
Desire | Enough | Faith | Love | Remorse | Submission | Time | Wisdom |
It has been well stated "that the pioneer is a creature not of time but of spirit."
A mind risks real ignorance for the sometimes paltry prize of an imagination enriched. The trick of reason is to get the imagination to seize the actual world - if only from time to time.
Ignorance | Imagination | Mind | Reason | Time | Wisdom | World |
People are commonly so employed in pointing out faults in those before them, as to forget that some behind may at the same time be descanting on their own.