This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Properly, there is no other knowledge but that which is got by working; the rest is yet all a hypothesis of knowledge; a thing to be argued of in schools; a thing floating in the clouds. endless logic vortices, till we try and fix it.
Hypothesis | Knowledge | Logic | Rest |
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Wang Yang-Ming or Yangming, aka Wang Shouren or Wang Shou-jen, courtesy name Bo'an
People today distinguish between knowledge and action and purse them separately, believing that one must know before he can act… They say [they will wait] till they truly know before putting their knowledge into practice. Consequently, to the end of their lives, they will never act and also will never know.
Action | Distinguish | Knowledge | People | Practice | Will |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free confidence of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
Confidence | Counsel | Men | Wisdom | Wise |
Will Durant, fully William James "Will" Durant
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
No one, no thing, is without a spirit. The spirit of a man who knows no spiritual things still exists, but is only resting in the reality of spirit, waiting to be awakened and used. All we have to do is to find that spirit through the guidance of Inner Vision and then awaken that spirit. Even those who once showed no spiritual knowledge know their spirit has been touched. If you can then heal the spirit, and heal that spirit with enough belief and power, then the power transcends the spirit and makes itself manifest in the flesh. But remember, we are just a bridge, a vessel, to be used by the Creator, and it is not us who decide to use the power.
Belief | Enough | Guidance | Knowledge | Man | Power | Reality | Spirit | Vision | Waiting | Guidance |
Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
Confidence | Nothing | Friendship |
Our ideas about life inevitably shape its structure, and, because they are usually too simple, it is wise to reflect on them... simple life axioms... The first is afraid of failure, yet it is surely impossible to have love in your life at all without the possibility of its loss. The second is afraid of self-revelation and vulnerability, and yet how can there be love without an opening of the heart and considerable emotional risk? The third is afraid of mortal love - the knowledge that although love itself may be eternal, the people who love are faced with the inevitable separation of death.
Axioms | Death | Eternal | Failure | Heart | Ideas | Inevitable | Knowledge | Life | Life | Love | Mortal | People | Revelation | Risk | Self | Wise | Afraid |
Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
Confidence | Nothing | Friendship |
It is the faith that is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate borders.
Faith | Knowledge | Man | Mission | Understanding | Will | Learn | Privilege |
The moralists cease to be realistic and commit idolatry inasmuch as they worship, not God, but their own ethical ideals, inasmuch as they treat virtue as an end in itself and not as the necessary condition of the knowledge and love of God – a knowledge and love without which that virtue will never be made perfect or even socially effective.
God | Ideals | Knowledge | Love | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Worship | God |
God is. That is the primordial fact. It is in order that we may discover this fact for ourselves, by direct experience, that we exist. The final end and purpose of every human being is the unitive knowledge of God's being.
Colin Powell, fully Colin Luther Powell
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.