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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Matthew B Ridgway, fully Matthew Bunker Ridgway

In setting our military goals we need first of all to recognize that most of the world’s most basic woes do not lend themselves to purely military solutions.

Goals | Need | Wisdom | World |

Publius Syrus

We should provide in peace what we need in war.

Need | Peace | War | Wisdom |

Theodore Roethke

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

Need | People | Wisdom |

Milton R. Sapirstein

It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day.

Children | Day | Love | Wisdom | Woman |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The training of children is a profession where we must know to lose time in order to gain it.

Children | Order | Time | Training | Wisdom |

Beverly Rubik

[Paraphrase from “Brain and Mind” article] “Local” healing reflects information from subtle bioenergy fields. By contrast, healing that appears non-local in space and time may be mediated by “information associated with conscious intention”... In electromagnetic healing... the living human organism contains many highly sensitive natural oscillators that join to form a collective “biofield.” This field is “a collective property of the organism and cannot be reduced to biomolecular events.” In this case, information is transmitted by external fields of similar frequency, with healing occurring through a “tuning” effect... “Information is about relationship and exists only in relationship.” Therefore, information grounded in love - “the highest-quality relationship” - may produce healing by overcoming information originated from the more mechanical levels of physical organization... “For science and medicine to embrace life’s full capacity and the full human potential we need to go beyond mechanical concepts that were developed for machines.”

Capacity | Contrast | Events | Intention | Life | Life | Love | Machines | Mind | Need | Organization | Property | Relationship | Science | Space | Time | Wisdom |

Albert Schweitzer

My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see, however strange it may be to mine... Ethics in our Western world has hitherto been largely limited to the relations of man to man. But that is limited ethics. We need a boundless ethics which will include the animals also.

Ethics | Life | Life | Man | Meaning | Need | Respect | Will | Wisdom | World | Respect |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To endure is the first thing a child ought to learn, and that which he will have most need to know.

Need | Will | Wisdom | Child |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to lose time in order to gain it.

Children | Order | Time | Training | Wisdom |

Milton R. Sapirstein

It is not enough for parents to understand children. they must accord children the privilege of understanding them.

Children | Enough | Parents | Understanding | Wisdom | Privilege | Understand |

Sydney Smith

The real object of education is to give children resources that will endure as long as life endures; habits that time will ameliorate, not destroy; occupation that will render sickness tolerable, solitude pleasant, age venerable, life more dignified and useful, and death less terrible.

Age | Children | Death | Destroy | Education | Life | Life | Object | Occupation | Solitude | Time | Will | Wisdom |

Benjamin Spock, fully Benjamin McLane Spock

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children and the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

Children | Good | People | Wisdom |

Gladys Bagg Taber

A time of quietude brings things into proportion and gives us strength. We all need to take time from the busyness of living, even it be only 10 minutes to watch the sun go down or the city lights blossom against a canyoned sky. We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach toward the infinite. Time to be.

Need | Strength | Time | Wisdom |

Igor Feodorovitch Stravinsky, or Fyodorovich

Art postulates communion, and the other artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

Art | Joy | Need | Wisdom |