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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Holger Kalweit

Life itself is experienced as an endless celebration, an eternal dance and rhythm, continuously pulsating sound. To the initiate, life is a vibrating, harmoniously synchronized melody. The shame works with this feeling of sharing the rhythm of the cosmic dance of fields of energy that are the source, the matrix of all matter.

Energy | Eternal | Life | Life | Melody | Shame | Sound | Wisdom |

Wanda Landowska

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discovery!

Inspiration | Joy | Learning | Passion | Research | Wisdom | World |

John Locke

The great art of learning is to understand but little at a time.

Art | Learning | Little | Time | Wisdom | Art | Understand |

John Allan May

Progress consists largely of learning to apply laws and truths that have always existed.

Learning | Progress | Wisdom | Truths |

Thomas Merton

The least of the work of learning is done in the classrooms.

Learning | Wisdom | Work |

Eugene McCarthy, fully Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy

Conspicuous waste beyond the imagination of Thorstein Veblen has become the mark of American life. As a nation we find ourselves overbuilt, if not overhoused; overfed, although millions of poor people are undernourished; overtransported in overpowered cars; and also... overdefended or overdefensed.

Imagination | Life | Life | People | Waste | Wisdom |

James McCosh

In the end, thought rules the world. There are times when impulses and passions are more powerful, but they soon expend themselves; while mind, acting constantly, is ever ready to drive them back and work when their energy is exhausted.

Energy | Mind | Thought | Wisdom | Work | World | Thought |

Theodore Parker

The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading. But a great book that comes from a great thinker - it is a ship of thought, deep-freighted with truth and with beauty.

Beauty | Books | Learning | Reading | Thought | Truth | Wisdom | Think |

Joseph Parker

The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading: but a great book that comes from a great thinker - it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and with beauty.

Beauty | Books | Learning | Reading | Thought | Truth | Wisdom | Think |

James Northcote

You are to consider that learning is of great use to society; and though it may not add to the stock, it is a necessary vehicle to transmit to others. Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainhead.

Knowledge | Learning | Men | Society | Wisdom |

Alexander Pope

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; their shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drink largely sobers us again.

Learning | Little | Taste | Wisdom |

Auguste Rodin, fully François-Auguste-René Rodin

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Experience | Nothing | Time | Waste | Wisdom |

Nathan Marsh Pusey

The finest fruit of serious learning should be the ability to speak the word God without reserve or embarrassment. And it should be spoken without adolescent resentment, rather with some sense of communion, with reverence and with joy.

Ability | God | Joy | Learning | Resentment | Reserve | Reverence | Sense | Wisdom | God |

Dominique Ricard

It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.

Learning | Love | Music | Wisdom | Learn |

Charles B. Rogers

No hour is to be considered a waste which teaches one what not to do.

Waste | Wisdom |

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

He that has acquired learning and not practiced what he has learnt, is like a man who plows but sows no seed.

Learning | Man | 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 |