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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M. M. Brewster, fully Margaret Maria Brewster Gordon

It would be well for us all, old and young, to remember that our words and actions, ay, and our thoughts also, are set upon never-stopping wheels, rolling on and on unto the pathway of eternity.

Eternity | Wisdom | Words | Old |

Christian Nestell Bovee

Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.

Constraint | Effort | Language | Play | Speech | Thought | Will | Wisdom | Wit | Words | Work | Thought |

John Christian Bovee

The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Action | Age | Events | Nature | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

John Bunyan

When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words than thy words without heart.

Heart | Wisdom | Words |

William Ellery Channing

They who have read about everything are thought to understand everything, but it is not always so; reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections - we must chew them over again.

Enough | Knowledge | Mind | Reading | Thinking | Thought | Wisdom | Thought | Understand |

Nicholas Murray Butler

There are five tests of the evidence of education - correctness and precision in the use of the mother tongue; refined and gentle manners, the result of fixed habits of thought and action; sound standards of appreciation of beauty and of worth, and a character based on those standards; power and habit of reflection, efficiency or the power to do.

Action | Appreciation | Beauty | Character | Correctness | Education | Efficiency | Evidence | Habit | Manners | Mother | Power | Precision | Reflection | Sound | Thought | Wisdom | Worth | Precision | Appreciation | Beauty | Thought |

Vernon Carter

The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is a crime against the student mind. It is like teaching a child how to pronounce words but now what they mean.

Crime | Education | Mind | Progress | Science | Wisdom | Words | Child |

William Ellery Channing

Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed in to a man may regenerate him.

Earth | Ideas | Influence | Man | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

Samuel Butler

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

Wisdom | Words |

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery - into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.

Intelligence | Mortal | Mystery | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

François-René de Chateaubriand, fully François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand

As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before.

Light | Mind | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

Elihu Burritt

All that I have accomplished, or expect or hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plotting, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.

Hope | Thought | Will | Wisdom | Thought |

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.

Events | Ideas | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

William Benton Clulow

I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valuable than a hundred original thoughts.

Esteem | Excellence | Thought | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom | Excellence | Thought |

Robert Collier

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

Enough | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

Clarence Darrow, fully Clarence Seward Darrow

When we abandon the thought of immortality we at least have cast out fear. We gain a certain dignity and self-respect. We regard our fellow travelers as companions in the pleasures and tribulations of life... We gain kinship with the world.

Dignity | Fear | Immortality | Life | Life | Regard | Respect | Self | Thought | Tribulations | Wisdom | World | Thought |