Great Throughts Treasury

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James Alfred Langford

No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of children of men.

Books | Children | Men | Position | Rank | Wisdom |

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

My body is that part of the world which my thoughts can alter. Even imaginary illnesses can become real ones. In the rest of the world my hypotheses cannot disturb the order of things.

Body | Order | Rest | Wisdom | World |

James Alfred Langford

A wise man will select his books, for he would not wish to class them all under the sacred name of friends. Some can be accepted only as acquaintances. The best books of all kinds are taken to the heart, and cherished as his most precious possessions. Others to be chatted with for a time, to spend a few pleasant hours with and laid aside, but not forgotten.

Books | Heart | Man | Possessions | Sacred | Time | Will | Wisdom | Wise |

Charles Lamb

I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.

Books | Love | Men | Reading | Wisdom | Think |

J. Z. Knight, fully Judy Zebra Knight, born Judity Darlene Hampton

Mere survival has always been the surface, bottom-line surface for our existence... Survival alone does not ennoble us... True meaning... can be found in what we’ve yet to accomplish, in the realm of the unknown. We must resolve to look deep within, at the unrealized potential of our unevolved selves. Materially, the unknown is one vast nothingness; potentially, it is all things. The unknown within us is where all dreams, thoughts and genius are frozen. The act of searching to make known the unknown triggers the brain. It allows us to incorporate, in ourselves, a greater consciousness, lighting the way for our dreams to enact themselves. Although we seem small in comparison with the whole universe, we are equipped with the greatest cosmic hookup ever created: the human brain. The brain - linked unconsciously to the infinite mind where the unknown resides - only facilitates thoughts, it does not create it. In struggling to find the answer to why we exist, we awaken the infinite mind to the unknown, making known the unknown, bringing meaning to our existence and commonness to all.

Consciousness | Dreams | Existence | Genius | Meaning | Mind | Survival | Universe | Wisdom |

Francis Lieber

Great truths always dwell a long time with small minorities, and the real voice of God is often that which rises above the masses, not that which follows them.

God | Time | Wisdom | God | Truths |

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

My body is that part of the world which can be altered by my thoughts. Even imaginary illnesses can become real. In the rest of the world my hypotheses cannot disturb the other of things.

Body | Rest | Wisdom | World |

Charles F. Kettering, fully Charles Franklin Kettering

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

Future | Rest | Will | Wisdom |

Stanley Kubrick

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

Nations | Wisdom |

Laberius, full name Decimus Laberius NULL

A small sum makes a debtor, a larger sum an enemy.

Enemy | Wisdom |

Amy Lowell, born Amy Lawrence Lowell

All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Books | Dreams | Wisdom | Words |

James Russell Lowell

In life’s small things be resolute and great to keep thy muscle trained: know’st thou when Fate thy measure takes, or when she’ll say to thee, “I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?”

Fate | Life | Life | Wisdom | Fate |

Daniel March

Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.

Business | Gold | People | Proverbs | Thought | Wisdom | World | Business | Thought | Value |

Alexander Maclaren

Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate, nor drown, the still, small voice in which God speaks. Bridle impatience till He does. If you cannot hear His whisper, wait till you do. Take care of running before you are sent. Keep your wills in equipoise till God’s hand gives the impulse and direction.

Care | God | Impatience | Impulse | Wills | Wisdom | God |

Manilius, fully Marcus Manilius NULL

Every one is in a small way the image of God.

God | Wisdom |

Samuel Joseph May

If it is a small sacrifice to discontinue the use of wine, do it for the sake of others; if it is a great sacrifice, do it for your own.

Sacrifice | Wisdom |

Guy de Maupassant, fully Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant

The great artists are those who impose their peculiar illusion on the rest of mankind.

Illusion | Mankind | Rest | Wisdom |