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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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Faith always implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater. A little mind often sees the unbelief, without seeing the belief of a large one.

Belief | Disbelief | Faith | Little | Mind | Unbelief | Wisdom |

Richard and Mary-Alice Jafolla

A change in belief patterns takes place on the most basic level of existence.

Belief | Change | Existence | Wisdom |

Ted Kennedy, fully Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy

It strains belief to know that Neil Armstrong can walk on the moon, 250,000 miles away, but that he cannot swim in Lake Erie, a few miles from his Ohio home.

Belief | Wisdom |

William James

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help you create the fact.

Belief | Life | Life | Will | Wisdom | Worth |

John F. Kennedy, fully John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe - the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

Belief | Generosity | God | Life | Life | Man | Mortal | Poverty | Power | Rights | Wisdom | World |

William James

Belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that will guarantee the success of any venture.

Beginning | Belief | Guarantee | Success | Will | Wisdom |

Abraham Lincoln

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

Important | Mind | Resolution | Success | Wisdom |

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.

Belief | People | Unbelief | Wisdom |

A. J. King, fully Andrew Jackson King

The secret of success of every man who has ever been successful lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Habit | Man | Success | Wisdom |

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Assertion | Belief | Fear | Wisdom |

Marya Mannes

Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.

Good | Humor | Man | Pleasure | Society | Success | Wisdom | Woman |

Christopher Morley, fully Christopher Darlington Morley

There is but one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Life | Life | Success | Wisdom |

David O. McKay

No worldly success can compensate for failure in the home.

Failure | Success | Wisdom | Failure |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Belief | Faith | Wisdom |

Leon Montenaeken, fully Louis Moreau Constant Corneille van Montenaeken

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Knowing | Success | Wisdom |

Édouard Jules Henri Pailleron

Have success and there will always be fools to say that you have talent.

Success | Will | Wisdom |

Thomas E. O’Connor

The divisions and boundaries that we perceive based upon our five senses are, in effect, an illusion. It’s my belief that the meaning of life changes from day to day, second to second. I believe we’re here to learn that we’re part of a creative force - I would go so far as to call that force divine. We’re here to learn that we can create a world and that we have a choice in what we create, and that our world, if we choose, can be a heaven or hell.

Belief | Choice | Day | Force | Heaven | Hell | Illusion | Life | Life | Meaning | Wisdom | World | Learn |

John Henry Patterson

Business is founded on vision and confidence; success on industry and cooperation.

Business | Confidence | Cooperation | Industry | Success | Vision | Wisdom |