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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Victor Hugo

Man the individual is a deeper being than man in the mass.

God | Success | Thinkers | God |

Victor Hugo

In short, between men and women you want.Equality. Equality! You can't mean it. Man and woman are two different creatures. I said equality. I didn't say identity.

Merit | Success |

Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl

Dostoevski said once, “There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.” These words frequently came to my mind after I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp who’s suffering and death, bore witness to the fact the last inner freedom can’t be lost. It can be said that they were worthy of their sufferings; the way they bore their suffering was a genuine inner achievement. It is this spiritual freedom — which cannot be taken away — that makes life meaningful and purposeful.

Cause | Dedication | Success | Surrender | Happiness |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

One should refrain from bad actions and engage in good deeds.

Success |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Lances and swords, marching bands, thrones and the salutes of others only increase his desire; he is engrossed in sexual desire.

Success |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

A woman should always think good of her family and should work according to her husband's wishes so that a peaceful, happy and cordial atmosphere prevails in the family.

Man | Success |

Rig Veda, or The Rigveda

One who makes a resolution and then makes sincere efforts to realize his dreams, nothing stops him from realizing his goal.

Enthusiasm | Success | Blessed |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Enshrine the Feet of the Guru within your heart; your pains, enemies and bad luck shall be destroyed.

Growth | Individual | Success |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Prayer has been made to mother earth that She blesses us with the knowledge required to exploit the treasures of the nature but without disturbing the environmental balance.

Success |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Those, who get attracted by ignorance and superficial worldly pleasures meet their ends early.

Good | Respect | Success | Wealth | Respect |

Yajur Veda, or Yajurveda

A man should tread on the path of truth for not only his own but for the benediction of entire humanity.

Body | Mind | Sound | Success |

Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

People | Reality | Success |

Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.

Children | Dependence | Energy | Glory | Judgment | Love | Memory | Mind | Order | Success | Teach | Truth |

Tom Lehrer, fully Thomas Andrew Lehrer

I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel. Everything I did is on the record and, if you want to hear it, just listen to the record.

Day | Good | Lord | Success | Work |

Thomas J. Watson, fully Thomas John Watson, Sr.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Success | Learn |

Thomas Malthus, fully Thomas Robert Malthus

Few persons will leave their families, connections, friends, and native land, to seek a settlement in untried foreign climes, without some strong subsisting causes of uneasiness where they are, or the hope of some great advantages in the place to which they are going.

Death | Earth | Inevitable | Man | Mankind | Power | Success | War | Work |

Thomas J. Watson, Jr., fully Thomas John Watson, Jr.

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

Father | Success | Think |

Thomas J. Watson, fully Thomas John Watson, Sr.

Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell

Failure | Success | Failure |

Thomas J. Watson, fully Thomas John Watson, Sr.

Wisdom is the power that enables us to use knowledge for the benefit of ourselves and others.

Business | Individual | Progress | Success | Business |