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

Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Desire | Experience | Study | Wisdom |

Baron de Montesquieu, fully Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu

The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.

Love | Passion | Study | Wisdom |

William Motherwell

The study of proverbs may be more instructive and comprehensive than the most elaborate scheme of philosophy.

Philosophy | Proverbs | Study | Wisdom |

Moses of Évreux NULL

Busy yourself as much as possible with the study of divine things, not to know them merely, but to do them; and when you close the book, look round you, look within you, to see if your hand can translate into deed something you have learned.

Study | Wisdom |

Paul Pearsall

We learn more from studying happy, healthy people than we can learn from the exclusive study of the sick and stressed.

Happy | People | Study | Wisdom | Learn |

Francis Quarles

Demean thyself more warily in thy study than in the street. If thy public actions have a hundred witnesses, thy private have a thousand. The multitude looks but upon thy actions; thy conscience looks into them: the multitude may chance to excuse thee, if not acquire thee; thy conscience will accuse thee, if not condemn thee.

Chance | Conscience | Looks | Public | Study | Will | Wisdom |

Alexander Pope

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; the proper study of Mankind is Man.

God | Man | Mankind | Study | Wisdom | God |

Charles P. Steinmetz, fully Charles Proteus Steinmetz, born Karl August Rudolf Steinmetz

Spiritual power is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest force in the development of men... Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness, and are of little use in making people creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of spiritual forces which have hardly been scratched.

Day | Force | History | Little | Men | People | Power | Study | Will | Wisdom | World | Learn |

Madame Swetchine, fully Anne Sophie Swetchine née Sophia Petrovna Soïmonov or Soymanof

I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.

Childhood | Principles | Study | Wisdom |

Lyall Watson

There are around half a million words in the English language, but a recent statistical study of telephone speech discovered that 96 percent of all conversation over the wires consists of just 737 words.

Conversation | Language | Speech | Study | Wisdom | Words |

Helena Blavatsky, aka Helena Petrovna "H.P." Blavatsky or Madame Blavatsky, born Helena von Hahn

We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.

Nothing | Study | Truth |

Benjamin Franklin

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.

Amusements | Attention | Business | Good | Man | Mankind | Plan | Study | Thought | Work | Thought |

Kenneth Hanson, aka Ken Hanson

To study is to live… The discipline of learning provides cohesion, a clear and compelling reason for being.

Discipline | Learning | Reason | Study |

Julian Jaynes

O what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! What ineffable essences, these touchless rememberings and unshowable reveries! And the privacy of it all! A secret theater of speechless monologue and prevenient counsel, an invisible mansion of all moods, musings and mysteries, an infinite resort of disappointments and discoveries. A whole kingdom where each of us reigns reclusively alone, questioning what we will, commanding what we can. A hidden hermitage where we may study out the troubled book of what we have done and yet may do. An introcosm that is more myself than anything I can find in a mirror. This consciousness that is myself of selves, that is everything, and yet nothing at all - what is it?

Consciousness | Counsel | Mind | Nothing | Study | Will | World |

Washington Irving

Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface. He, however, who would study nature in its wilderness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.

Nature | Society | Study |

Victor Hugo

The huge concentric waves of universal life are shoreless. The starry sky that we study is but a partial appearance. We grasp but a few meshes of the vast network of existence.

Appearance | Existence | Life | Life | Study |