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

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

The task of educating and feeding youngsters, the task of educating the army, the task of distributing the lands of the former absentee landlords to those who laboured every day upon that same land without receiving its benefits, are accomplishments of social medicine.

Darkness | Individuality | Light | Little | Silence | Space |

Estonian Proverbs

The cat who snoops around will feed his kitten.

Silence |

Eugene Peterson

The story behind the writing of The Message (this was especially interesting to me).

God | Silence | Words | God |

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

In any case, write what you know will always be excellent advice to those who ought not to write at all.

Books | Church | Meaning | Silence | Talking | Time | Writing |

Euripedes NULL

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

Quiet | Reserve | Silence |

Euripedes NULL

For chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Quiet | Reserve | Silence |

Euripedes NULL

Youth holds no society with grief.

Silence |

Gustave Flaubert

It was for him that she had done it -- for this creature here, this man who understood nothing, who felt nothing.

Silence |

J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.

Beginning | Change | Silence | Understand |