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

Alan William Smolowe

How people think, relate and react to their circumstances, not what the circumstances are, is what determines their realities.

Character | Circumstances | People |

Robert Smith Surtees

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

Character | People | Virtue | Virtue |

Jeremy Taylor

Great knowledge, if it be without vanity, is the most sever bridle of the tongue... Every beam of reason and ray of knowledge checks the dissolution of the tongue.

Character | Knowledge | Reason |

John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury

If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.

Care | Character | Eternity | Heaven | Life | Life | People |

Wilhelm Stekel

Truth is not always the best basis for happiness... There are people who perish when their eyes are open.

Character | People | Truth |

Robert Southey

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge as stubborn temper to happiness.

Character | Knowledge | Little | Mind | Temper | Wisdom |

Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens

We are offended and resent it when people do not respect us; and yet no man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

Character | Heart | Man | People | Respect | Respect |

Hotzoas Chochmah Umassar

Usually people are not envious of someone’s virtues, but of the honor the person receives for his virtues.

Character | Honor | People |

Brooks Atkinson, fully Justin Brooks Atkinson

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one every thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

Age | Good | Myth | People | Thought | Time | Wisdom | Old | Thought |