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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Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn

Without big words, how could many people say small things?

People | Wisdom | Words |

Frances S. Osgood

Labor! all labor is noble and holy! Let thy great deeds by thy prayer to thy God.

Deeds | God | Labor | Prayer | Wisdom | Deeds |

Alexander Pope

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Madness | Spirit | Wisdom |

Alexander Pope

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hates a man for being a friend to her.

Friend | Love | Man | Wisdom | Woman |

Dan Pursuit

All children wear the sign: 'I want to be important NOW.' Many of our juvenile delinquency problems arise because nobody reads the sign.

Children | Important | Problems | Wisdom |

Jean Racine, baptismal name Jean-Baptiste Racine

None love, but they who wish to love... Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

Heart | Love | Wisdom |

Henry Habberley "H.H." Price

Where we consider the world around us, we cannot help noticing that there is a great deal of recurrence or repetition in it. The same colour recurs over and over again in ever so many things. Shapes repeat themselves likewise.

Wisdom | World |

V. V. Rozanov, fully Vasily Vasilievich Rozanov or Vasilii Rosanov

Look everywhere with your eyes; but with your soul never look at many things, but at one.

Soul | Wisdom |

Antoine de Rivarol, also known as Comte de Rivarol

It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains.

Mob | Wisdom |

Claude A. Ries

A saintly colored woman who was greatly loved in her community was asked how she made and kept so many friends. She replied, "I stop and taste my words before I let them pass my teeth."

Taste | Wisdom | Woman | Words |

Dominique Ricard

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

Learning | Love | Music | Wisdom | Learn |

Joshua Reynolds, fully Sir Joshua Reynolds

There is no expedient to which man will not resort to void the real labor of thinking.

Labor | Man | Thinking | Will | Wisdom |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The great inequality in manner of living, the extreme idleness of some, and the excessive labor of others, the easiness of exciting and gratifying our sensual appetites, the too exquisite foods of the wealthy which overheat and fill them with indigestion, and, on the other hand, the unwholesome food of the poor, often, bad as it is, insufficient for their needs, which induces them, when opportunity offers, to eat voraciously and overcharge their stomachs; all these, together with sitting up late, and excesses of every kind, immoderate transports of every passion, fatigue, mental exhaustion, the innumerable pains and anxieties inseparable from every condition of life, by which the mind of man is incessantly tormented; these are too fatal proofs that the greater part of our ills are our own making, and that we might have avoided them nearly all by adhering to that simple, uniform and solitary manner of life which nature prescribed.

Extreme | Idleness | Indigestion | Inequality | Labor | Life | Life | Man | Mind | Nature | Opportunity | Passion | Wisdom |

Beverly Rubik

[Paraphrase from “Brain and Mind” article] “Local” healing reflects information from subtle bioenergy fields. By contrast, healing that appears non-local in space and time may be mediated by “information associated with conscious intention”... In electromagnetic healing... the living human organism contains many highly sensitive natural oscillators that join to form a collective “biofield.” This field is “a collective property of the organism and cannot be reduced to biomolecular events.” In this case, information is transmitted by external fields of similar frequency, with healing occurring through a “tuning” effect... “Information is about relationship and exists only in relationship.” Therefore, information grounded in love - “the highest-quality relationship” - may produce healing by overcoming information originated from the more mechanical levels of physical organization... “For science and medicine to embrace life’s full capacity and the full human potential we need to go beyond mechanical concepts that were developed for machines.”

Capacity | Contrast | Events | Intention | Life | Life | Love | Machines | Mind | Need | Organization | Property | Relationship | Science | Space | Time | Wisdom |

Samuel Rutherford

I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what the Lord is preparing for him.

God | Heart | Lord | Wisdom | Wonder | God | Child |