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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Bachya Ibn Pekudah

The goal to strive for is that it should be equal in your eyes if others happen to praise or insult you.

Character | Insult | Praise | Insult |

William Morley Punshon

Speak the truth by all means; be bold and fearless in your rebuke of error, and in your keener rebuke of wrong doing; but be human, and loving, and gentle, and brotherly the while.

Character | Error | Means | Rebuke | Truth | Wrong |

Publius Syrus

In quarreling the truth is always lost.

Character | Truth |

George Ripley

It is not he who searches for praise who finds it.

Character | Praise |

William Robertson

Truth lies in character... Truth is a thing not of words, but of life and being.

Character | Life | Life | Truth | Words |

Isaac Halevi Satanov, fully Isaac ben Moses Halevi Satanov

The beginning of research is curiosity, its essence is discernment, and its goal truth and justice.

Beginning | Character | Curiosity | Discernment | Justice | Research | Truth |

John A. Sanford, aka Jack

Jung said the truth of the matter is that the shadow is ninety percent gold. Whatever has been repressed holds a tremendous amount of energy, with a great positive potential. So the shadow, no matter how troublesome it may be, is not intrinsically evil. The ego, in its refusal of insight and its refusal to accept the entire personality, contributes much more to evil than the shadow.

Character | Ego | Energy | Evil | Gold | Insight | Personality | Truth |

Charles Seymour

We shall seek the truth and endure the consequences.

Character | Consequences | Truth |

Charles Simmons

Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.

Character | Conscience | Good | Man | Self | Truth |

Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz

Regardless of how much honor he receives, an honor-seeker will feel upset if even one person does not show him the honor and approval he demands. There will never be an amount of honor that will satisfy him. Physical desires have a saturation point, but the desire for honor is based on falsehood and illusion and is really nothing in itself.

Character | Desire | Falsehood | Honor | Illusion | Nothing | Will | Approval |

William Gilmore Simms

Have I done anything for society? I have then done more for myself. Let that truth be always present to thy mind, and work without cessation.

Character | Mind | Present | Society | Truth | Work |

Albert Schweitzer

The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty.

Beauty | Character | Sense | Soul | Truth | World |