Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Miles Coverdale, also Myles Coverdale

A quiet heart is a continual feast.

Heart | Quiet | Wisdom |

John Dewey

We cannot have jobs and opportunities if we surrender our freedom to Government control... We can have both opportunity and security within the framework of a free society.

Control | Freedom | Government | Opportunity | Security | Society | Surrender | Wisdom | Government |

John Cudahy, fully John Clarence Cudahy

If these distracted times prove anything, they prove that the greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin. And we will discover that the treasure-house of education has stood intact and unshaken in the storm. The man of cultivated life has founded his house upon a rock. You can never take away the magnificent mansion of his mind.

Education | Illusion | Life | Life | Man | Mind | Possessions | Search | Security | Will | Wisdom |

George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quiet apart form any fluctuations that went before - consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.

Consequences | Deeds | Quiet | Wisdom | Deeds |

Albert Einstein

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Life | Life | Mind | Quiet | Solitude | Wisdom |

François Fénelon, fully Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Defects | Imperfection | Quiet | Wisdom |

Henry Ford

If money is your only hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Ability | Experience | Hope | Knowledge | Man | Money | Reserve | Security | Will | Wisdom | World |

Felix Frankfurter

There can be no security where there is fear.

Fear | Security | Wisdom |

Timothy Flint

Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, a cheerful mind, and active habits, I place early rising as a means of health and happiness.

Conscience | Health | Means | Mind | Quiet | Wisdom |

Thomas Guthrie

Faith is the backbone of the social and the foundation of the commercial fabric; remove faith between man and man, and society and commerce fall to pieces. There is not a happy home on earth but stands on faith; our heads are pillowed on it, we sleep at night in its arms with greater security for the safety of our lives, peace, and prosperity than bolts and bars can give.

Commerce | Earth | Faith | Happy | Man | Peace | Prosperity | Security | Society | Wisdom | Society | Commerce |

Louis Kossuth, also Lajos Kossuth, fully Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva

I consider that it is on instruction and education that the future security and direction of the destiny of every nation chiefly and fundamentally rests.

Destiny | Education | Future | Security | Wisdom | Instruction |

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

Conformity | Majority | Security | Success | Wisdom | World |

Henry C. Link

The true security was found to be family unity, not physical safety.

Family | Security | Unity | Wisdom |

Hamilton Wright Mabie

To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.

Mind | Quiet | Self | Spirit | Wisdom |

Douglas MacArthur

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Earth | Opportunity | Security | Wisdom |

André Maurois, born born Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog

There is no liberty without security, and no security without unity.

Liberty | Security | Unity | Wisdom |