This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Search for a single, inclusive good is doomed to failure. Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situation of experience its own full and unique meaning.
Experience | Failure | Good | Life | Life | Meaning | Search | Unique | Wisdom | Happiness |
Anthony of Sourozh, fully Archbishop Metropolitan Anthony Bloom of Sourozh NULL
People are much greater and stronger than we imagine, and when unexpected tragedy comes we see them often grow to a stature that is far beyond anything we imagined. We must remember that people are capable of greatness, of courage, but not in isolation. They need the conditions of solidly linked human unit in which everyone is prepared to bear the burden of others.
Courage | Greatness | Isolation | Need | People | Tragedy | Wisdom |
All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Experience | Freedom | Will | Wisdom |
Education is anything that we do for the purpose of taking advantage of the experience of some one else.
Education | Experience | Purpose | Purpose | Wisdom |
Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How willingly I would as a poet exchange some of this lumbering, ponderous, helpless knowledge of books for some experience of life and man. But all this grumbling is a vile thing.
Books | Experience | Knowledge | Life | Life | Man | Wisdom |
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.
Experience | Meditation | Mind | Nothing | Wisdom |
The moment you can make a very simple discovery, viz., that obligation to God is your privilege, and is not imposed as a burden, your experience will teach you many things - that duty is liberty, that repentance is a release from sorrow, that sacrifice is gain, that humility is dignity, that the truth from that which you hide is a healing element that bathes your disordered life, and that even the penalties and terrors of God are the artillery only to protection to His realm.
Dignity | Discovery | Duty | Experience | God | Humility | Liberty | Life | Life | Obligation | Repentance | Sacrifice | Sorrow | Teach | Truth | Will | Wisdom | God |
Joy is indeed a precious quality which very few experience in their lives. The person who knows how to enjoy life will never grow old no matter how many years he can call his own. It is easy to be happy at specific times, but there is a certain art in being happy and contented every day.
Art | Day | Experience | Happy | Joy | Life | Life | Will | Wisdom | Art | Old |
Al Capp, full name Alfred Gerald Caplin
Any place that anyone young can learn something useful from with experience is an educational institution.
Experience | Wisdom | Learn |
Miguel de Cervantes, fully Miguel de Cervantes Saaversa
I am of opinion that there are no proverbial sayings which are not true, because they are all sentences drawn from experience itself, who is the mother of all sciences.
Experience | Mother | Opinion | Wisdom |
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
Experience | Nothing | Wisdom |
S. Parkes Cadman, fully Samuel Parkes Cadman
A little experience upsets a lot of theory.
Experience | Little | Wisdom |
Men who have had a great deal of experience learn not to lose their tempers.
Experience | Men | Wisdom | Learn |
A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.
Experience | Little | Wisdom |
Calvin Coolidge, fully John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Ability | Discipline | Experience | Knowledge | Mind | Time | Wisdom | Work |