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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Robert Collier

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

Enough | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

Clarence Darrow, fully Clarence Seward Darrow

When we abandon the thought of immortality we at least have cast out fear. We gain a certain dignity and self-respect. We regard our fellow travelers as companions in the pleasures and tribulations of life... We gain kinship with the world.

Dignity | Fear | Immortality | Life | Life | Regard | Respect | Self | Thought | Tribulations | Wisdom | World | Thought |

Robert Collier

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.

Mind | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

Samuel McChord Crothers

Our thought is the key which unlocks the doors of the world.

Thought | Wisdom | World | Thought |

Robert Collier

Your belief that you can do the thing gives your thought forces their power.

Belief | Power | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

William Congreve

Even silence may be eloquent in love.

Love | Silence | Wisdom |

Robert Conkin, aka Bob Conkin

Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.

Change | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

Tyron Edwards

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your household.

Apothegms | Children | Duty | Family | Maxims | Mind | Sound | Teach | Thought | Truth | Will | Wisdom | Thought |

Martinus Dumiensis

If you yourself cannot keep silent, how can you expect silence from another?

Silence | Wisdom |

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

One thought cannot wake without awakening others.

Awakening | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.

Enough | Grave | Silence | Wisdom |

John William Draper

Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

Absolute | Individual | Nothing | Thought | Time | Wisdom | Thought |

Tyron Edwards

Change of opinion is often only the progress of sound thought and growing knowledge; and though sometimes regarded as an inconsistency, it is but the noble inconsistency natural to a mind ever ready for growth and expansion of thought, and that never fears to follow where truth and duty may lead the way.

Change | Duty | Growth | Inconsistency | Knowledge | Mind | Opinion | Progress | Sound | Thought | Truth | Wisdom | Thought |

Mary Baker Eddy

The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible.

Achievement | Devotion | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

James "Jim" L. Foster

To have thought far too little, we shall find in the review of life, among our capital faults.

Life | Life | Little | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

Randolph S. Foster, fully Randolph Sinks Foster

As we look up into these glorious culminations, how grand life becomes! To be forever with the Lord, and forever changing into His likeness, and, still more, forever depending in the companionship of His thought and bliss, “from glory to glory” - could we desire more?

Desire | Glory | Life | Life | Lord | Thought | Wisdom | Companionship | Thought |

Alexander Fleming, fully Sir Alexander Fleming

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought and perception of an individual.

Individual | Perception | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |