This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our powers of judgment are more completely exposed by being overpraised than by being unjustly underestimated.
Robert Oppenheimer, fully Julius Robert Oppenheimer
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics... they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
Children | Perception | Problems | Wisdom |
Creativity is a flower that praise brings to bloom, but discouragement often nips in the bud.
Creativity | Praise | Wisdom |
More people praise the Bible than read it, more read it than understand it, and more understand it than follow it.
It is not enough for parents to understand children. they must accord children the privilege of understanding them.
Children | Enough | Parents | Understanding | Wisdom | Privilege | Understand |
The real object of education is to give children resources that will endure as long as life endures; habits that time will ameliorate, not destroy; occupation that will render sickness tolerable, solitude pleasant, age venerable, life more dignified and useful, and death less terrible.
Age | Children | Death | Destroy | Education | Life | Life | Object | Occupation | Solitude | Time | Will | Wisdom |
Benjamin Spock, fully Benjamin McLane Spock
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children and the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.