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

Bible or The Bible or Holy Bible NULL

The mouth of a wise man is in his heart; the heart of a fool is in his mouth.

Heart | Man | Wisdom | Wise |

Babylonian Talmud

He who is loud in his prayers is short in his faith... He who prays must direct his heart to heaven.

Faith | Heart | Heaven | Wisdom |

Bernard Baruch, fully Bernard Mannes Baruch

Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged. Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.

Blame | Consciousness | Heart | Nothing | Soul | Wisdom | Approval |

Bible or The Bible or Holy Bible NULL

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Heart | Will | Wisdom |

Ludwig Börne, fully Karl Ludwig Börne

It is not the mind, it is the heart that makes free.

Heart | Mind | Wisdom |

Jean de La Bruyère

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

Better | Heart | People | Wisdom |

Guiraut de Borneilh

Love is perfect kindness, which is born - there is no doubt - from the heart and eyes. The eyes make it blossom; the heart matures it.

Doubt | Heart | Kindness | Love | Wisdom |

Henry George Bohn

There is nothing can equal the tender hours when life is first in bloom, when the heart like a bee, in a wild of flowers, finds everywhere perfume; when the present is all and it questions not if those flowers shall pass away, but pleased with its own delightful lot, dreams never of decay.

Dreams | Heart | Life | Life | Nothing | Present | Wisdom |

J. E. Boodin

There is the laughter which is born out of the pure joy of living, the spontaneous expression of health and energy - the secret laughter of the child. This is a gift of God. There is the warm laughter of the kindly soul which heartens the discouraged, gives health to the sick and comfort to the dying... There is, above all, the laughter that comes from the eternal joy of creation, the joy of making the world new, the joy of expressing the inner riches of the soul - laughter that triumphs over pain and hardship in the passion for an enduring ideal, the joy of bringing the light of happiness, of truth and beauty into a dark world. This is divine laughter par excellence.

Beauty | Comfort | Energy | Eternal | Excellence | God | Health | Joy | Laughter | Light | Pain | Passion | Riches | Soul | Truth | Wisdom | World | Riches | Hardship | Beauty |

John Christian Bovee

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties. It is the cause of patience; gives endurance; overcome pain; strengthens weakness; braves dangers; sustains hope; make light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.

Cause | Devotion | Earnestness | Endurance | Hope | Light | Pain | Patience | Sense | Weakness | Wisdom |

Elizabeth Bowen, Full name Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.

Absence | Better | Heart | People | Wisdom | Think |

Thomas Brooks

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

God | Heart | Will | Wisdom | God |

Christian Nestell Bovee

The language of the heart which comes from the heart and goes to the heart - is always simple, graceful, and full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language, difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied.

Art | Harmony | Heart | Language | Power | Rhetoric | Teach | Wisdom | Art |

Nicholas-Edme Rétif or Restif, aka Rétif de la Bretonne

The heart of youth is reached through the senses; the senses of age are reached through the heart.

Age | Heart | Wisdom | Youth | Youth |