This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Envy not the old man the tranquillity of his existence, nor yet blame him if it sometimes looks like apathy. Time, the inexorable, does not threaten him with the scythe so often as with the sand-bag. He does not cut, but he stuns and stupefies.
Apathy | Blame | Envy | Existence | Looks | Man | Time | Tranquility | Wisdom | Old |
If a child who wanted to be a teacher I would bid him Godspeed as if he were going to war. For indeed the war against prejudice, greed and ignorance is eternal, and those who dedicate themselves to it give their lives not less because they may live to see some faction of the battle won.
Battle | Eternal | Greed | Ignorance | Prejudice | War | Wisdom | Child | Teacher |
Vern Law, fully Vernon Sanders Law
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson after.
Experience | Lesson | Wisdom | Teacher |
Samuel David Luzzatto, aka by acronym of SHaDaL or SHeDaL
Judaism looks upon all human beings as children of one Father; thinks of them as all created in the image of God, and insists that a man be judged not by his religion, but his action.
Action | Children | Father | God | Looks | Man | Religion | Wisdom |
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all are agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better-looking than he had imagined.
Livy, formally Titus Livius, aka Titus Livy NULL
Experience is the teacher of fools.
Experience | Wisdom | Teacher |
In my life of professional teaching, I have never endeavored to make young men more efficient; I have tried to make them more interesting. If one is interested, one is usually interesting. The business of a teacher is not to supply information, it is to raise a thirst. I like to hang pictures on the walls of the mind, I like to make it possible for a man to live with himself, so that he will not be bored with himself. For my own part, I live everyday as if this were the first day I had ever seen and the last I were going to see.
Business | Day | Life | Life | Man | Men | Mind | Will | Wisdom | Business | Teacher |
Demean thyself more warily in thy study than in the street. If thy public actions have a hundred witnesses, thy private have a thousand. The multitude looks but upon thy actions; thy conscience looks into them: the multitude may chance to excuse thee, if not acquire thee; thy conscience will accuse thee, if not condemn thee.
Chance | Conscience | Looks | Public | Study | Will | Wisdom |
The eye is the window of the soul, the mouth the door. The intellect, the will, are seen in the eye; the emotions, sensibilities, and affections, in the mouth. The animals look for man’s intentions right into his eyes. Even a rat, when you hunt him and bring him to bay, looks you in the eye.
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.
A boy who suffers not at the hands of his teacher suffers at the hand of Time.
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. That is possible for him who never argues and strives with men and facts, but in all experiences retires upon himself, and looks for the ultimate cause of things in himself.
Cause | Life | Life | Looks | Man | Men | Success | Wisdom |