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

D. H. Lawrence, fully David Herbert "D.H." Lawrence

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

Critic | Trust | Wisdom |

John Masefield

Best trust the happy moments. What they gave makes man less fearful of that certain grave and gives his work compassion and new eyes, the days that make us happy make us wise.

Compassion | Grave | Happy | Man | Trust | Wisdom | Wise | Work |

Joseph Parker

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.

Evil | History | Trust | Wisdom | Wrong |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is a great mistake of many ardent students that they trust too much to their books, and do not draw from their own resources - forgetting that of all sophists our own reason is that which abuses us least.

Books | Mistake | Reason | Trust | Wisdom |

Oscar S. Straus, fully Oscar Solomon Straus

There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization.

Civilization | Duty | Mankind | Patriotism | Trust | Wisdom |

Joseph R. Sizoo

Empires build on force will always be destroyed. Those built on trust in Christ will remain.

Force | Trust | Will | Wisdom |

John Welwood

We do not have to hold on to our identity to survive... We see that no states of mind are solid; they only become solid when we weave them into a story. We discover that opening to the vast open space of awareness does not destroy us. We learn to trust in the unknown as a guide to what is most fresh and alive in the moment.

Awareness | Destroy | Mind | Space | Story | Trust | Wisdom | Awareness | Learn |

John Blofeld, fully John Eaton Calthorpe Blofeld

The world is full of paradox. For example, [in Buddhism] though no notion of a creator is entertained, great stress is laid upon the need for faith and piety. By faith is meant not trust in a benevolent diety avid for love, praise and obedience, but conviction that beyond the seeming reality misreported by our senses which is inherently unsatisfactory, lies a mystery which, when intuitively unsatisfactory, lies a mystery which, when intuitively perceived, will give our lives undreamed-of meaning and endow the most insignificant object with holiness and beauty.

Beauty | Example | Faith | Love | Meaning | Mystery | Need | Obedience | Object | Paradox | Piety | Praise | Reality | Trust | Will | World |

David Armistead

Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware.

Enough | People | Trust |

Joyce Brothers

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Flattery | Imitation | Listening | Trust |

Henry Clay

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the public.

Government | Public | Trust | Government |

Christopher Cranch, fully Christopher Pearse Cranch

O Light divine! We need no fuller test that all is ordered well; We know enough to trust that all is best where Love and Wisdom dwell.

Enough | Light | Love | Need | Trust | Wisdom |

Henry Fielding

Never trust the man who hath reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

Man | Reason | Trust |

James W. Fowler III

Most often faith is understood as belief in certain propositional, doctrinal formulations that in some essential ands static way are supposed to “contain” truth. But if faith is relational, a pledging of trust and fidelity to another, and a way of moving into the force field of life trusting in dynamic center of value and power, then the “truth” of faith takes on a different quality. Truth is lived: it is a pattern of being in relation to others and to God. In this light, doctrines and creeds come to be seen as playing a different though still crucial role. Rather than being the repositories of truth, like treasure chests to be honored and assented to, they becomes guides for the construction of contemporary ways of seeing and being.

Belief | Dynamic | Faith | Fidelity | Force | God | Life | Life | Light | Power | Trust | Truth | Value |

Jean Grou, fully Jean Nicholas Grou

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life for which the first was made. Our times are in His hand Who saith: “A whole I planned, youth shows but half; trust God: see all nor be afraid.”

God | Life | Life | Trust | Youth | Youth | Old |