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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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Life | Life | Time | Wisdom |

Publius Syrus

There is nothing that time does not either soothe or conquer.

Nothing | Time | Wisdom |

Francis Quarles

Expect, but fear not, Death: Death cannot kill, till Time (that first must seal his patent) will. Would’st thou live long? keep Time in high esteem: whom gone, if thou canst not recall, redeem.

Death | Esteem | Fear | Kill | Time | Will | Wisdom |

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

Every abstract thinker tears love and time asunder.

Abstract | Love | Tears | Time | Wisdom |

Martin Rossman

Imagery is a rich, symbolic and highly personal language, and the more time you spend observing and interacting with your own image-making brain, the more quickly and effectively you will use it to improve your health.

Health | Language | Time | Will | Wisdom |

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Justice is that which is most primitive in the human soul, most fundamental in society, most sacred among ideas, and what the masses demand today with most ardor. It is the essence of religions and at the same time the form of reason, the secret object of faith, and the beginning, middle and end of knowledge. What can be imagined more universal, more strong, more complete than justice?

Beginning | Faith | Ideas | Justice | Knowledge | Object | Reason | Sacred | Society | Soul | Time | Wisdom |

William Shenstone

The proper means of increasing the love we bear of our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

Love | Means | Time | Wisdom |

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 |

Sa'di (or Saadi), pen name of Abū-Muḥammad Muṣliḥ al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī, born Muslih-uddin NULL

A well-intentioned lie is better than a mischief-making truth... Use not to lie, for that is unhonest; speak not every truth, for that is unneedful; yes, in time and place, a harmless lie is a great deal better than a hurtful truth.

Better | Time | Truth | 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 |

Noah benShea

Wisdom surrounds us. It is seldom hidden but often overlooked. When we shut our eyes, the truth does not go into hiding. Every time a door is shut, somewhere another door opened.

Time | Truth | Wisdom |

William Shenstone

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend is the moment you receive them; then the warmth of friendship and the intelligence received most forcibly co-operate.

Friend | Intelligence | Receive | Time | Wisdom | Friendship |

Noah benShea

When we treat time as a limit... then time becomes a wall, a barrier we will die climbing. If we see our days as a river, Jacob motioned to the waters in front of them, then we know time as a vehicle and realize we have all be born as passengers.

Time | Will | Wisdom |

Noah benShea

The world can be seen in a single blade of grass... but you must take the time to look.

Time | Wisdom | World |