This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"It is easy to be honest enough not to be hanged. To be really honest means to subdue one’s prepossessions, ideals - stating things fairly, not humoring your argument - doing justice to your enemies... making confession whether you can afford it or not; refusing unmerited praise; looking painful truths in the face." - Aubrey de Vere, fully Aubrey Albericus de Vere NULL
"It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
"To win, one must be big enough to see the worth in others, big enough to cheer when others score." - Lucie Campbell, fully Lucie Eddie Campbell-Williams
"There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle." - Robert Alden
"You know how to take charge of your life and transform yourself into the person you want to be, all you have to do is make the commitment to yourself and believe in yourself enough to keep your commitment." - Fred D. Anderson
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity. It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow." - Melodie Beattie
"If enough people consider compassion to be important, then the world becomes a more compassionate place." - Phil Catalfo
"It is no longer enough to be smart — all the technological tools in the world add meaning and value only if they enhance our core values, the deepest part of our heart. Acquiring knowledge is no guarantee of practical, useful application. Wisdom implies a mature integration of appropriate knowledge, a seasoned ability to filter the inessential from the essential." - Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein
"Knowing is not enough; We must apply. Willing is not enough; We must do." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"You vision is not big enough unless people are falling over laughing." - Elizabeth Jeffries
"When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them." - Helen Keller. aka Helen Adams Keller
"Any fool can try to defend his mistakes - and most fools do - but it gives one a feeling of nobility to admit one's mistakes. By fighting, you never get enough, but by yielding, you get more than you expected." - Lawrence G. Lovasik
"What we gain without effort does not satisfy like what comes through the sweat of our brow or the work of self-transformation. No berries taste as sweet as those we pick. No insight changes us as deeply as what we discover ourselves. Prayer might help, but walking the endless path of practice is the only way to a deep reward. Sometimes just the path is reward enough." - Franz Metcalf
"Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money." - Peggy Noonan, born Margaret Ellen Noonan
"At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out." - Virginia Postrel
"If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win." - Walter Reuther, fully Walter Philip Reuther
"It has been said that the primary function of schools is to impart enough facts to make children stop asking questions. Some, with whom the schools do not succeed, become scientists... and I never stopped asking questions." - Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
"We should each ask ourselves: what place does ethics have in my daily life? In thinking about this question, ask yourself: what do I think of as a good life, in the fullest sense of that term? This is an ultimate question. To ask it is to ask: what kind of a life do I truly admire, and what kind of life do I hope to be able to look back on, when I am older and reflect on how I have lived? Will it be enough to say: "It was fun"?" - Peter Singer
"The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come." - Peter Ustinov, fully Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov
"It is safe to assume that the actions of our ancestors were guided by gratitude, obligation, retribution, and indignation before they developed enough language capacity for moral discourse." - Frans de Waal, fully Franciscus Bernardus Maria "Frans" de Waal
"We know what we need to do. We may not know all the answers, but we know enough of them that we have no excuse not to act. Too many focus on the difficulty of the problem merely as a means of evading responsibility." - Paul Wellstone, fully Paul David Wellstone
"True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those tenets personally chosen by the individual, strong enough to endure through trials of solitude and adversity. The principles are fitted together into what we call integrity, literally the integrated self, wherein personal decisions feel good and true. Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others." -
"The secret to quality public education has never been a big mystery. You need good teachers and you need small enough classes so those teachers can do their work. Period." - Michael Winerip
"Freedom is not an ideal it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set - and this in a world where half our fellow man have less than enough to eat." - Adlai Ewing Stevenson
"Knowledge alone is not enough. It must be leavened with magnanimity before it becomes wisdom." - Adlai Ewing Stevenson
"Knowledge alone is not enough. It must be leavened with magnanimity before it becomes wisdom." - Adlai Ewing Stevenson
"Old men are always young enough to learn, with profit." - Aeschylus NULL
"Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself." - Alan Alda, born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo
"Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself." -
"Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself." -
"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a human heart. One must imagine Sisyphus is happy." - Albert Camus
"Women complain about sex more often than men. Their gripes fall into two major categories: (1) Not enough, (2) Too much." - Ann Landers, pen name created by Chicago Sun-Times advice columnist Ruth Crowley in 1943 and taken over by Eppie Lederer in 1955