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

Osho, born Chandra Mohan Jain, also known as Acharya Rajneesh and Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh NULL

When you love a person all fear disappears. And when you are afraid all love disappears.

Fear | Love | Afraid |

Malaysian Proverbs

One can pay back the gift of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.

Debt | Gold |

D. W. Winicott, fully Donald Woods Winnicott

Our power to think things out about human nature is liable to be blocked by our fear of the full implication of what we find.

Fear | Human nature | Nature | Power | Think |

Anita Roddick

Let's stop teaching our children to fear change and to protect the status quo. Let's teach them to inquire and to debate, to ask questions until they hear answers. The best way to do that is to change traditional schooling.

Change | Children | Fear | Teach |

Irving Singer

While they stand to lose more by dying, men and women who are happy or have meaningful lives tend to fear death less than others do.

Death | Fear | Happy | Men |

Aeschylus NULL

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

Fear | Good | Heart | Pain | Wisdom |

Albert Camus

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Energy | People |

Albert Camus

Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Future |

Allan Bloom, fully Allan David Bloom

Education is the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.

Art | Education | Energy | Soul |

Alexis Carrel

Prayer is not only worship; it is also an invisible emanation of man’s worshipping spirit - the most powerful form of energy that one can generate. The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. It results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships. If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered.

Body | Energy | Habit | Influence | Life | Life | Man | Mind | Prayer | Spirit | Understanding | Will | Worship |

Amos Pinchot, fully Amos Richards Eno Pinchot

Today the nations of the world may be divided into two classes - the nations in which the government fears the people, and the nations in which the people fear the government.

Fear | Government | Nations | People | World | Government |

Amos Pinchot, fully Amos Richards Eno Pinchot

Today the nations of the world may be divided into two classes – the nations in which government fears the people, and the nations in which the people fear the government.

Fear | Government | Nations | People | World | Government |

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A friend is, above all, one who judges not... For beyond and above our differences we meet on common ground, and I am his friend. And, when we are together, I can keep silence, having nothing to fear from him for my inner gardens, my mountains and my ravines - for he will not trample them.

Fear | Friend | Nothing | Silence | Will |

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. And if the habit of prayer is seen to be so important for teaching a man to love his fellow men, this is because no answer is given to his prayers. Your love is based on hatred when you wrap yourself up in a certain man or woman on whom you batten as a stock of food laid by and, like dogs snarling at teach other round their trough, you fall to hating anyone who casts even a glance at your repast. you call it love, this selfish appetite. No sooner is love bestowed on you than (even as in your false friendships) you convert this free gift into servitude and bondage and, from the very moment you are loved, you begin to fancy yourself wronged.

Appetite | Habit | Important | Love | Man | Men | Nothing | Prayer | Servitude | Teach | Woman |