Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Related Quotes

Mario Puzo, fully Mario Gianluigi Puzo

Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer.

Friends |

Yiddish Proverbs

Ten enemies cannot hurt a man as much as he hurts himself.

Man |

Russian Proverbs

Bread is the best advice to the hungry.

Advice |

Hannah Whitall Smith

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right.

Advice | Giving | People | Right |

Shantideva NULL

Eager to escape sorrow, men rush into sorrow; from desire of happiness they blindly slay their own happiness, enemies to themselves.

Desire | Men | Sorrow | Happiness |

Andrew Dickson White

The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

Creed | Doctrine | God |

Peter Medawar, fully Sir Peter Brian Medawar

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

Advice | Age | Better | Hypothesis |

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Let's face it. Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains, that we are now on the eve of great decisions, not easy decisions, like resistance when you're attacked, but along, patient, costly struggle which alone can assure triumph over the great enemies of man - war, poverty and tyranny - and the assaults upon human dignity which are the most grievous consequences of each.

Consequences | Dignity | Man | People | Poverty | Sense | Struggle | Truth | Tyranny | War |

African Proverbs

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Enemy |

Aesop NULL

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Advice | Man | Trust |