This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
I have learned by experience that no man’s character can be eventually injured but by his own acts.
Character | Experience | Man |
If thou desire to see thy child virtuous, let him not see his father’s vices; thou canst not rebuke that in children that they behold practiced in thee; till reason be ripe, examples direct more than precepts; such as thy behavior is before they children’s faces, such commonly is theirs behind their parents backs.
Behavior | Character | Children | Desire | Father | Parents | Reason | Rebuke | Child |
Rashi, born Shlomo ben Yitzchok, aka Salomon Isaacides, Rabbi Shlomo Itzhaki NULL
Each person is a one time phenomenon, an occurrence that has never been before and will never be again. You have a unique blend of character traits and personality. You are unique in your particular family constellation, born in a specific time of history and in a specific environment. This uniqueness gives you great importance. Only you can accomplish your unique life tasks.
Character | Family | History | Life | Life | Personality | Time | Unique | Will |
Strength of character is not measured by who we support but by knowing we all lean on one another.
Trifles discover a character more than actions of importance.
Friedrich Schiller, fully Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Every individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.
Character | Contradiction | Individual | Right | Self | Wrong |
Good character is human nature in its best form. It is moral order embodied in the individual. Men of character are not only the conscience of society, but in every well governed state they are its best motive power; for it is moral qualities which, in the main, rule the world.
Character | Conscience | Good | Human nature | Individual | Men | Nature | Order | Power | Qualities | Rule | Society | World |
Learning is the raising of character by the broadening of vision and the deepening of feeling.