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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Henry George

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. The reaction must come. The tower leans from its foundation, and every new story but hastens the final catastrophe.

Contrast | Luxury | Progress | Story | Wealth |

Russell Green

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

Despise | Education | Wealth |

Henry of Langenstein NULL

He who has enough to satisfy what he wants, and nevertheless ceaselessly labors to acquire riches, either in order to obtain a higher social position, or that subsequently he may have enough to live without labor, or that his sons may become men of wealth and importance - all such are incited by a damnable avarice, sensuality and pride.

Avarice | Enough | Labor | Men | Order | Position | Pride | Riches | Sensuality | Wants | Wealth |

Abraham Joshua Heschel

What the world needs is a sense of ultimate embarrassment. Modern man has the power and the wealth to overcome poverty and disease, but he has no wisdom to overcome suspicion. We are guilty of misunderstanding the meaning of existence; we are guilty of distorting our goals and misrepresenting our souls. We are better than our assertions, more intricate, more profound than our theories maintain.

Better | Disease | Existence | Goals | Man | Meaning | Poverty | Power | Sense | Suspicion | Theories | Wealth | Wisdom | World | Guilty |

Abraham Joshua Heschel

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments... Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time... Judaism is a religion of time aiming at the sanctification of time.

Eternal | Life | Life | Religion | Sacred | Sense | Time | Wealth |

Rudyard Kipling

Do not care overly much for wealth or power or fame, or one day you will meet someone who cares for none of these things, and you will realize how poor you have become.

Care | Day | Fame | Power | Wealth | Will |

Lao Tzu, ne Li Urh, also Laotse, Lao Tse, Lao Tse, Lao Zi, Laozi, Lao Zi, La-tsze

Banish wisdom, throw away knowledge, and the people will benefit a hundredfold! Banish “humanity,” throw away righteousness, and the people will become conscientious and full of love! Banish skill, throw away profit and thieves and robbers will disappear!

Humanity | Knowledge | Love | People | Righteousness | Skill | Will | Wisdom |

John C. Maxwell

A winner is big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Enough |

Niccolò Machiavelli, formally Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the older order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the laws in their favor; and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.

Experience | Fear | Incredulity | Mankind | Nothing | Order | Success |

Carl Ogelsby

That cold, still statistic of profit and loss is a statement about someone’s happiness and someone else’s pain.

Pain | Loss | Happiness |

Catherine Ponder

There is basically one problem in life: congestion. There is basically one solution: circulation. Systemic giving is, therefore, a powerful practice that blesses every phase of our lives, as it keeps us attuned to the wealth of the universe.

Giving | Life | Life | Practice | Universe | Wealth |

Sa’ib of Tabriz, aka Mirza Muhammad Ali Sa'ib, Saib Isfahani or Sa'ib Of Esfahan NULL

What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.

Knowledge | World |

Samuel Smiles

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Health | Industry | Knowledge | Study | Time | Wealth |

Herbert Alexander Simon

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

Attention | Need | Poverty | Wealth |

Sydney Smith

Among the smaller duties of life, I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. Reputation is one of the prizes for which men contend: it produces more labor and more talent than twice the wealth of a country could ever rear up. It is the coin of genius, and it is the imperious duty of every man to bestow it with the most scrupulous justice and the wisest economy.

Duty | Important | Justice | Labor | Life | Life | Man | Men | Praise | Reputation | Wealth | Talent |

Mark Sagoff

The world has the wealth and resources to provide everyone the opportunity to live a decent life. We consume too much when market relationships displace the bonds of community, compassion, culture, and place. We consume too much when consumption becomes an end in itself and makes us lose affection and reverence for the natural world.

Compassion | Culture | Life | Life | Opportunity | Reverence | Wealth | World |

Jim Webb, formally James Henry Webb, Jr.

The wealth of a society isn't measured at the top, but at the bottom

Society | Wealth | Society |

Donald Woods Winnicott

Human beings are not animals; they are animals plus a wealth of fantasy, psyche, soul, or inner world potential or whatever you will.

Soul | Wealth | Will | World |