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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Sa'di (or Saadi), pen name of Abū-Muḥammad Muṣliḥ al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī, born Muslih-uddin NULL

The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not enclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.

Earth | Man | Wisdom |

Arthur Schnitzler

Without our faith in free will the earth would be the scene not only of the most horrible nonsense but also of the most intolerable boredom.

Earth | Faith | Free will | Nonsense | Will | Wisdom |

Robert E. Sherwood, fully Robert Emmet Sherwood

The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.

Earth | Friend | Man | Wisdom |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had someone pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!

Earth | Enough | Human race | Man | People | Race | Society | Wisdom |

Sa'di (or Saadi), pen name of Abū-Muḥammad Muṣliḥ al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī, born Muslih-uddin NULL

The money of the miser is coming out of the earth when he is himself going into it.

Earth | Money | Wisdom |

Leopold Schefer

Do not envy the violet the dew-drop or glitter of a sunbeam; do not envy the bee the plant from which he draws some sweets. Do not envy man the little goods he possesses; for the earth is for him the plant from which he obtains some sweets, and his mind is the dew-drop which the world colors for an instant.

Earth | Envy | Little | Man | Mind | Wisdom | World |

Stockholm Conference NULL

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

Earth | Good | Guests | Wisdom |

Richard and Greta Smolowe

We believe in a life continuum, and eternal life. Each incarnation or lifetime on earth is 'just a day in the classroom'... We believe the plane of greatest learning is the physical plane. It is up to all of us to make the most of each carnation. We believe that all there is in the universe is energy... and all energy forms, from subatomic particles to stars, are in a constant state of change and transformation... that interpreting energy frequencies on sensory bands creates the reality in which each life-form lives.

Change | Day | Earth | Energy | Eternal | Learning | Life | Life | Reality | Universe | Wisdom |

Robert Louis Stevenson, fully Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

The kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure.

Heaven | Love | Pleasure | Wisdom |

Jeremy Taylor

No man can hinder our private addresses to God; every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the earth he treads on, the alter.

Earth | God | Heart | Man | Sacrifice | Wisdom |

Tauri NULL

Every human on Planet Earth has his own electromagnetic print.

Earth | Wisdom |

Jeremy Taylor

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster? To see rare effects, and no cause; a motion, without a mover; a circle, without a centre; a time, without an eternity; a second, without a first: these are things so against philosophy and natural reason, that he must be a beast in understanding who can believe in them. The thing formed, says that nothing formed it; and that which is made, is, while that which made it is not! This folly is infinite!

Art | Cause | Chance | Earth | Eternity | Folly | Heaven | Nothing | Philosophy | Reason | Skill | Time | Understanding | Wisdom | Art | Think |

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, Commonly called Alfred Lord Tennyson

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheeps or goats that nourish a blind life within the brain, if, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way bound by gold chains about the feet of God.

Better | Dreams | Earth | Gold | Knowing | Life | Life | Men | Prayer | Wisdom | World |

Thomas De Witt Talmage

The costliest thing on earth is the drunkard’s song. It costs ruin of body. It costs ruin of mind...The costliest thing on earth is sin. The most expensive of all music is the Song of the Drunkards. It is the highest tariff of nations - not a protective tariff, but a tariff of doom, a tariff of woe, an tariff of death.

Body | Death | Earth | Mind | Music | Nations | Sin | Wisdom | Woe |