Great Throughts Treasury

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

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Arthur Dunn

Truth is the strongest and most powerful weapon a man can use, whether he is fighting for a reform or fighting for a sale.

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Fighting | Man | Reform | Truth | Wisdom |

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Albert Einstein

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

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Fate | Man | Wisdom | Fate |

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Albert Einstein

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

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Diversity | Experience | Science | Sense | System | Thought | Wisdom |

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Thomas E. Dewey, fully Thomas Edmund Dewey

No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.

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Life | Life | Man | Money | Office | Public | Wisdom |

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Fyodor Dostoevsky, fully Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoevsky or Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski

Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

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Man | Wisdom |

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Norman Douglas, aka George Norman Douglas

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.

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Life | Life | Man | Platitudes | Wisdom | Wrong |

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Albert Einstein

The State is made for man, not man for the State.

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Lloyd C. Douglas, fully Lloyd Cassel Douglas, born Doya C. Douglas

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

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Fear | Man | Personality | Thinking | Wisdom |

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The wise man is seldom prudent.

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Man | Wisdom | Wise |

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George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

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Failure | Fear | Man | Purpose | Purpose | Wisdom | Failure |

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Dudley Doolittle

To reason with a wised man is easy; with a fool, impossible.

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Man | Reason | Wisdom |

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Samuel Smith Drury

Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be chore man all your days.

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Little | Man | Wisdom |

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Maria Edgeworth

There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

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Hope | Hurry | Indolence | Man | Present | Will | Wisdom | World |

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Albert Einstein

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking.

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Labor | Man | Thinking | Will | Wisdom |

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Thomas Draxe

A man knoweth not the worth of a thing before that he wanteth it.

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Man | Wisdom | Worth |

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Alexandre Dumas, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie

True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.

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Better | Love | Man | Wisdom | Woman |

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