This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions.
Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. But yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it, like Herillus the philosopher, who placed in it the sovereign good, and held that it was in its power to make us wise and content. That I do not believe, nor what others have said, that knowledge is the mother of all virtue, and all vice is produced by ignorance. If that is true, it is subject to a long interpretation.
Character | Despise | Enough | Evidence | Extreme | Good | Ignorance | Knowledge | Mother | Power | Stupidity | Truth | Virtue | Virtue | Wise | Value | Vice |
Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
There is still more intelligence needed to teach others than to be taught.
Character | Intelligence | Teach |
James Ridley, fully James Kenneth Ridley, wrote under pen name Sir Charles Morell
The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.
So the thing to do when working on a motorcycle, as in any other task, is to cultivate the peace of mind which does not separate one’s self from one’s surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows naturally. Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all.
Character | Mind | Peace | Reflection | Right | Self | Serenity | Will | Work |
Revelations are the aberration of faith; they are an amusement that spoils simplicity in relation to God, that embarrasses the soul and makes it swerve from its directness in relation to God. They distract the soul and occupy it with others than God.
Character | Faith | God | Simplicity | Soul |
Albert Paine, fully Albert Bigelow Paine
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we condemn in others, is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known - to see all other's faults and feel our own.