This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead, choose death because we cannot forget quarrels? We appeal, as human beings, to human beings; remember your humanity and forget the rest. If you can do this, the way lies open to a new paradise; if you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death." - Albert Einstein
"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality." - Albert Einstein
"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters." - Albert Einstein
"Without creative personalities able to think and judge independently, the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community." - Albert Einstein
"Jealousy and lust, and ambition drive a man out of the world." - Rabbi Eleazar ben Azariah NULL
"Who stimulates others to do good is greater than the doer." - Rabbi Eleazar ben Azariah NULL
"Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us - the ties that have made others depend on us - and would cut them in two." - George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans
"Work is life and good work is good life." - James W. Elliot
"Vacillating people seldom succeed. They seldom win the solid respect of their fellows. Successful men and women are very careful in reaching decisions and very persistent and determined in action thereafter." - L. G. Elliott, fully Lloyd George Elliott
"More errors arise from inhibited indecision than from impulsive behavior." - Morris Ernst, fully Morris Leopold Ernst
"A tongue without reins, definance, unwisdom - their end is disaster. But the life of quiet gfood, the wisdom that accepts - these abaide unshaken, preserving, sustaining the houses of men." - Euripedes NULL
"Cleverness is not wisdom." - Euripedes NULL
"Every man is like the company he is wont to keep." - Euripedes NULL
"Many are the natures of men, various their manners of living, yet a straight path is always the right one; and lessons deeply taught lead man to paths of righteousness; reverence, I say, is wisdom and by its grace transfigures - so that we seek virtue with a right judgment. From all of this springs honor bringing ageless glory into Man’s life. Oh, a mighty quest is the hunting out of virtue." - Euripedes NULL
"Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends." - Euripedes NULL
"Wise men take occasion by the hand." - Euripedes NULL
"Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech." - Evangel, born Chege Njoroge, aka Alcatraz NULL
"He that succeeds makes an important thing of the immediate task." - William Feather
"The way to get ahead is to start now." - William Feather
"Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it." - Owen Feltham
"Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best." - Owen Feltham
"If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate." - François Fénelon, fully Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon
"Our task is to discover the primordial, absolutely unconditioned first principle of all human knowledge... It is intended to express that Act which does not and cannot appear among the empirical states of our consciousness, but rather is at the basis of all consciousness and alone makes it possible." - J. G. Fichte, fully Johann Gottlieb Fichte
"Our doctrine here is therefore that all reality... is brought forth solely by the imagination." - J. G. Fichte, fully Johann Gottlieb Fichte
"All worthwhile men have good thoughts, good ideas and good intentions - but precious few of them ever translate those into action." - John Hancock Field
"Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains." - Henry Fielding
"Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate." - Henry Fielding
"Do people love truth? On the contrary, mankind has employed its subtlest ingenuity and intelligence in efforts to evade or conceal it... Do human beings love justice? The sordid travesties in our courts year after year suggest that they love justice only for themselves. Do they love peace? Can anyone seriously ask the question? Do they love freedom? Only for those who share their views. Love of peace, freedom, justice, truth - this is a myth that has been created by the folk mind, and if the artist does not look behind the myth to the reality, he will indeed wander amid the phantoms which he creates." - Vardis Fisher, fully Vardis Alvero Fisher
"Do you know what real poverty is? It is never to have a big thought or a generous impulse." - Jerome P. Fleishman
"We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right; there can be no conflict between good economics and good morals." - Henry Ford
"Gratitude is the virtue most deified and most deserted. It is the ornament of rhetoric and the libel of practical life." - John W. Forney, fully John Wien Forney
"Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat." - Harry Emerson Fosdick
"It is cynicism and fear that freezes life: it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free." - Harry Emerson Fosdick
"A good conscience is a continual Christmas." - Benjamin Franklin
"He that can have patience can have what he will." - Benjamin Franklin
"If you would be loved, love and be lovable." - Benjamin Franklin
"The modest temple of wisdom." - Benjamin Franklin
"The deepest grief is tearless." - Karl Emil Franzos
"Through himself alone can man be redeemed - through himself and in himself." - Karl Emil Franzos
"The truth cannot be erased. Neither can lies." - French Student Revolt Graffiti NULL
"In a world as empirical as ours, a youngster who does not know what he is good at will not be sure what he is good for." - Edgar Z. Friedenberg
"We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts." - James William Fulbright
"Only what man achieves through effort is dear to him." - Elijah ben Shlomo Zalman, known as the Vilna Gaon or Elijah of Vilna or by his Hebrew acronym Gra ("Gaon Rabbenu Eliyahu")
"To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind." - Théophile Gautier, fully Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier, aka Le Bon Theo
"To renounce your individuality, to see with another's eyes, to hear with another's ears, to be two and yet but one, to so melt and mingle that you no longer know you are you or another, to constantly absorb and constantly radiate, to reduce earth, sea and sky and all that in them is to a single being so wholly that nothing whatever is withheld, to be prepared at any moment for sacrifice, to double your personality in bestowing it - that is love." - Théophile Gautier, fully Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier, aka Le Bon Theo
"Confession is the first step to repentance." - Edmund Gayton