Great Throughts Treasury

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Polish-born American Writer, Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Nobel Prize for Literature

"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."

"Sometimes love is stronger than a man’s convictions."

"Doubt is part of all religions. All the religious thinkers were doubters."

"Literature is the memory of humanity."

"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of non-knowledge."

"There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is."

"We have to believe in free will. We have no choice."

"We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions."

"If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet."

"Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life. "

"When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. "

"We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children. "