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

Fritz A. Rothschild

To the spiritual eye space is frozen time, and all things are petrified events.

Events | Space | Time |

Albert Schweitzer

Have you ever considered how dreadful it would be if our lives had no appointed end but went on forever? Can you imagine that as far as the eye can see into the future we should remain enmeshed in all the desires and troubles of this life and that all the ensuing envy, hatred and malice, our own and other people’s should continue to pile up undiminished? If you have ever considered how intolerable the burden of our life would be without the understood certainty that it has an appointed end, you know that death comes to all, even the most fortunate, not as an enemy but as a deliverance.

Death | Enemy | Envy | Future | Life | Life | Malice | People | Troubles |

William Wordsworth

I felt the sentiment of Being spread o’er all that moves and all that seemeth still; o’er that, lost beyond the reach of thought and human knowledge, to the human eye invisible, yet liveth to the heart.

Heart | Knowledge | Sentiment | Thought | Thought |

Henri Bergson, aka Henri-Louis Bergson

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Mind |

Richard Carlson

Have you ever noticed or thought about how little eye contact most of us have with strangers? Why? Are we afraid of them? What keeps us from opening our hearts to people we don't know?

Little | People | Thought | Afraid | Thought |

African Proverbs

The eye is a coward.

Aristotle NULL

The blind are more understanding than the deaf because hearing exerts a direct influence on the formation of moral character, which is not immediately true of what is seen. The human soul can also become diffused by way of the eye whereas what is heard results in focus and concentration.

Character | Focus | Influence | Soul | Understanding |

Aristotle NULL

All we do is done with an eye to something else.

Armenian Proverbs

Better to lose your eye than your good name.

Better | Good |

Author Unknown NULL

It is the eye that makes the horizon.

Charles Caleb Colton

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.

Calumny | God | Man |

Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL

If a man attack his own failings instead of those of others, will he not remedy his personal faults?

Man | Will |

Dag Hammarskjöld

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only they who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.

Right | Will |

Dag Hammarskjöld

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step: only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

Right | Will |

Edmund Burke

The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blenches, the thought that never wanders - these are the masters of victory.

Thought | Thought |

Frederick Franck

When drawing a face, any face, it is as if curtain after curtain, mask after mask, falls away, until a final mask remains, one that can no longer be removed, reduced. By the time the drawing is finished, I know a great deal about that face, for no face can hide itself for long. But although noting escapes the eye, all is forgiven beforehand. The eye does not judge, moralize, criticize. It accept the masks in gratitude as it does the long bamboos being long, the goldenrod being yellow.

Gratitude | Time |