This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Freethinkers are those who reach judgment based on critical thinking and independent reasoning without regard to prevailing authority and tradition.
Authority | Critical thinking | Judgment | Regard | Thinking | Tradition | Critical Thinking |
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience--well that comes from poor judgment.
Experience | Good | Judgment |
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Prayer is not only worship; it is also an invisible emanation of man’s worshipping spirit - the most powerful form of energy that one can generate. The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. It results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships. If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered.
Body | Energy | Habit | Influence | Life | Life | Man | Mind | Prayer | Spirit | Understanding | Will | Worship |
Those who desire honor from good men, and men who know, are aiming at confirming their own opinion of themselves; they delight in honor, therefore, because they believe in their own goodness on the strength of the judgment of those who speak about them.
Desire | Good | Honor | Judgment | Men | Opinion | Strength |
The states of virtue by which the soul possesses truth by way of affirmation or denial are five in number, i.e., art, scientific knowledge, practical wisdom, philosophical wisdom, intuitive wisdom: we do not included judgment and opinion because in these we may be mistaken.
Art | Judgment | Knowledge | Opinion | Soul | Truth | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom |
Each evening we should meditate upon the fact that one more day is gone from the list that make up the sum of our years...By so much the time is shortened that separates us from the grave, the judgment and the eternal destiny.
Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature.
Judgment |
Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
Exaggeration | Judgment | Knowledge | Prodigality | Taste |
Know yourself - in talents and capacity, in judgment and inclination.
Capacity | Inclination | Judgment |
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not extricate himself.