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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Albert Einstein

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Knowledge | Wisdom | Talent |

Betty Edwards

Many adults draw childlike drawings and many children give up drawing at age nine or ten. These children grow up to become the adults who say they never could draw and can't even draw a straight line. The same adults, however, if questioned, often say that they would have liked to learn to draw well, just for their own satisfaction at solving the drawing problems that plagued them as children. But they felt that they had to stop drawing because they couldn't learn how to draw.

Age | Children | Problems | Wisdom | Learn |

B. C. Forbes, fully Bertie Charles "B.C." Forbes

Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

Business | Will | Wisdom | Business |

Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud

Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration.

Aspiration | Will | Wisdom |

Betty Friedan

American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and realize one’s full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.

Cause | Need | Pleasure | Sense | Terror | Wisdom |

Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud

An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.

Caution | Enjoyment | Life | Life | Means | Method | Need | Punishment | Wisdom |

Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

Sense | Wisdom | Happiness |

Egon Friedell, born Egon Friedmann

If the animals suddenly got the gift of laughter, they would begin by laughing at themselves sick about man, that most ridiculous, most absurd, most foolish of all animals.

Absurd | Laughter | Man | Wisdom |

John Hall

Culture is good, genius is brilliant, civilization is a blessing, education is a great privilege; but we may be educated villains. The thing that we want most of all is the precious gift of the Holy Ghost.

Civilization | Culture | Education | Genius | Good | Wisdom |

Thomas Hughes

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

God | Power | Self | Wisdom |

Angelo Jaspe

If you develop your natural gift, there’s no better satisfaction in life, no better purpose... The basic key to having a happy life is to live until you know you’re satisfied.

Better | Happy | Life | Life | Purpose | Purpose | Wisdom |

Carl Jung, fully Carl Gustav Jung

A man can hope for satisfaction and fulfillment only in what he does not yet possess; he cannot find pleasured in something of which he already has too much.

Fulfillment | Hope | Man | Wisdom |

Charles W. Landon

Music is God’s best gift to man, the only art of heaven given to earth, the only art of earth that we take to heaven. But music, like all our gifts, is given us in the germ. It is for us to unfold and develop it by instruction and cultivation.

Art | Cultivation | Earth | God | Heaven | Man | Music | Wisdom | Instruction | Art |

Leonard Lauder, fully Leonard A. Lauder

The future is not a gift - it is an achievement.

Achievement | Future | Wisdom |

Compton Mackenzie, fully Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie

If I were a godfather wishing a gift on a child, it would be that he should always be more interested in other people than in himself. That's a real gift.

People | Wisdom |

Henry T. Maschal

If you are to find rewarding satisfaction in your work, if your life is to be rich and purposeful and crowned with high achievement, it is important you continue to be a growing person. Education is a continuing process. It does not end with the termination of your schooling. Education continues from the beginning of life to the end of life, and balanced growth throughout one's entire life is important for every individual.

Achievement | Beginning | Education | Growth | Important | Individual | Life | Life | Wisdom | Work |

James Russell Lowell

Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, not a quality; its seat is in the higher reason, and it is efficient only as the servant of the will. Imagination, as too often understood, is mere fantasy - the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams.

Dreams | Imagination | Power | Reason | Will | Wisdom |