This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Superstition is but the fear of belief, religion is the confidence and trust. The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.
Belief | Church | Confidence | Fear | Religion | Superstition | Trust | World |
The end... of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Faith | God | Grace | Knowledge | Learning | Love | Parents | Perfection | Virtue | Virtue | God |
Discourses on morality and reflection on human nature are the best means we can make use of to improve our minds, gain a true knowledge of ourselves, and recover our souls out of the vice, ignorance, and prejudice which naturally cleave to them.
Human nature | Ignorance | Knowledge | Means | Morality | Nature | Prejudice | Reflection |
A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good natured. It will lighten sickness, poverty and affliction; convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable.
Affliction | Beauty | Good | Ignorance | Innocence | Knowledge | Poverty | Simplicity | Temper | Will | Wit | Beauty |
To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength, to consider that she is to shine forever with new accessions of glory, and brighten to all eternity; that she will be still adding virtue to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge, carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man.
Ambition | Eternity | Glory | Knowledge | Man | Mind | Soul | Strength | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Ambition |
Miserable indeed is a world in which we have knowledge without understanding, criticism without appreciation, beauty without love, truth without passion, righteousness without mercy, and courtesy without a warm heart!
Appreciation | Beauty | Courtesy | Criticism | Heart | Knowledge | Love | Mercy | Passion | Righteousness | Truth | Understanding | World | Beauty |
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures.
Knowledge | Life | Life | Understanding | Will |
Leonardo da Vinci, fully Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
Lord Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.
Tolerance in the sense of moderation or superior knowledge or skepticism is actually the worst form of intolerance.
Intolerance | Knowledge | Moderation | Sense | Skepticism | Moderation |
Leonardo da Vinci, fully Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
The painter who draws by practice and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all the objects which are set opposite it without knowledge of the same.
Karl Popper, fully Sir Karl Raimund Popper
Instead of encouraging the student to devote himself to his studies for the sake of studying, instead of encouraging in him a real love for his subject and for inquiry, he is encouraged to study for the sake of his personal career; he is led to acquire only such knowledge as is serviceable in getting him over the hurdles which he must clear for the sake of his advancement.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
Concealment | Grace | Knowledge |