This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The more and more you listen, the more and more you hear; the more and more you hear, the deeper and deeper your understanding becomes.
Understanding | Wisdom |
Silence is the highest wisdom of a fool as speech is the greatest trial of a wise man. If thou wouldst be known as wise, let thy words show thee so; if thou doubt thy words, let thy silence feign thee so. It is not a greater point of wisdom to discover knowledge than to hide ignorance.
Doubt | Ignorance | Knowledge | Man | Silence | Speech | Wisdom | Wise | Words | Trial |
Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head.
Better | Heart | Understanding | Wisdom |
Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language.
Language | Man | Nature | Understanding | Wisdom |
Useful knowledge is a great support for intuition.
Lydia Sigourney, fully Lydia Huntley Sigourney, née Lydia Howard Huntley
Lost wealth may be restored by industry, the wreck of health regained by temperance, forgotten knowledge restored by study, alienated friendship smoothed into forgetfulness, even forfeited reputation won by penitence and virtue. But who ever looked upon his vanished hours, recalled his slighted years, stamped them with wisdom, or effaced from Heaven's record the fearful blot of wasted time?
Forgetfulness | Health | Heaven | Industry | Knowledge | Reputation | Study | Time | Virtue | Virtue | Wealth | Wisdom | Friendship |
The deeper we look into nature, the more we realize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship to the Universe.
Knowledge | Life | Life | Man | Nature | Relationship | Universe | Wisdom |
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
It is the same with understanding as with eyes; to a certain size and make, just so much light is necessary, and no more. Whatever is beyond brings darkness and confusion.
Darkness | Light | Size | Understanding | Wisdom |
It is not enough for parents to understand children. they must accord children the privilege of understanding them.
Children | Enough | Parents | Understanding | Wisdom | Privilege | Understand |
Jonathan Swift, pen names, M.B. Drapier, Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff
Our Knowledge is but mere Remembrance all, Remembrance is our Treasure and our Food.
Lillian Smith, fully Lillian Eugenia Smith
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Education | Experience | Knowledge | Little | Wisdom | World |
It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit in life. Human knowledge is but an accumulation of small facts, made by successive generations of men, the little bits of knowledge and experience carefully treasured up and growing at length into a mighty pyramid.
Art | Business | Experience | Knowledge | Life | Life | Little | Men | Observation | Science | Success | Wisdom |
Faith is the revealer of knowledge; it is the office of reason to defend that knowledge and to preserve it pure. Independent knowledge - the knowledge that comes not though faith - whether it be of things earthly or things heavenly, never can be ours.