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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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

Abstract | Reason | Truth | Wisdom |

Publius Syrus

In excessive altercation, truth is lost.

Altercation | Truth | Wisdom |

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.

Truth | 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 |

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

Love decentralizes, truth universalizes: he who speaks addresses all mankind, he who loves incarnates all mankind in himself.

Love | Mankind | Truth | Wisdom |

Johann Jakob Scheuchzer

Each truth sparkles with a light of its own, yet it always reflects some light upon another; a truth, while lighting another, springs from one, in order to penetrate another. The first truth is an abundant sense, from which all others are colored, and each particular truth, in its turn, resembles a great river that divides into an infinite number of rivulets.

Light | Order | Sense | Truth | Wisdom |

William Shenstone

A liar with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

Ends | Falsehood | Truth | Wisdom |

Albert Schweitzer

By the spirit of the age... the man of today is forced into skepticism about his own thinking, in order to make him receptive to truth which comes to him from authority... Truth taken over by skepticism which has become believing... is not capable of uniting itself with him to the very marrow of his being.

Age | Authority | Man | Order | Skepticism | Spirit | Thinking | Truth | Wisdom |

Albert Schweitzer

One truth stands firm. All that happens in the world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

History | Truth | Wisdom | World |

Ichabod Smith Spencer

To experience religion is to experience the truth of the great doctrines of divine grace.

Experience | Grace | Religion | Truth | Wisdom |