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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Alexis de Tocqueville, fully Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville

I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its nakedness, but the others are able to cover it with a veil so delicate, so daintily woven with small plausible lies, that there is some pleasure to be found in contemplating this ingenious work of the human intelligence.

Cowardice | Display | Fear | Intelligence | People | Pleasure | Thought | Wisdom | Work | Thought |

Edward Weeks

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

Fear | Wisdom | Afraid |

Virgil Thomson

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Fear | Time | Wisdom | Learn |

William C. Westmoreland

War is fear cloaked in courage.

Courage | Fear | War | Wisdom |

Daniel Webster

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with principles with the just fear of God and love of our fellowmen, we engrave on those tablets something which will brighten to all eternity.

Eternity | Fear | God | Love | Principles | Time | Will | Wisdom | Work | God |

William Whately

That is true humility to have a meane esteeme of himselfe out of a true apprehension of Gods greatnesse.

Humility | Wisdom |

Greta Woodrew, Pseud. for Greta Andron Smolowe

The body is a servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind. There is a mind/body connection that is powerful. As a healer, I am convinced disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought. Sick thoughts express themselves through a sickly body. Thoughts of fear can kill a man. People who live in fear of disease are most likely the very people who get the disease. Conversely, if you would improve your body, guard your mind.

Body | Circumstances | Disease | Fear | Health | Kill | Man | Mind | People | Thought | Wisdom |

Herman Wouk

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.

Fear | Love | Peace | War | Will | Wisdom |

John Witherspoon

It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of man.

Fear | God | Man | Wisdom | God |

Joseph Whitfield

Now that man has again evolved to a point where he can make the transition into fourth dimensional consciousness, communication and contacts with extraterrestrial beings has greatly increased. The presence of extraterrestrials should be on of the most reassuring events that is taking place on Earth. Instead, it is often the cause of great fear and apprehension. Fear is born of ignorance. Were it not so, people would welcome their space brothers with open arms. All major governments have repeatedly received information to explain the ET presence. They have been ignored as the product of a deranged mind. At some point some one must come to the realization that the problem of the existence of spacecraft is not going to disappear because man officially refuses to recognize their presence.

Cause | Consciousness | Earth | Events | Existence | Fear | Ignorance | Man | Mind | People | Space | Wisdom |

Saint Thomas Aquinas, aka Thomas of Aquin or Aquino, Doctor Angelicus, Doctor Communis or Doctor Universalis

Every prudent man tolerates a lesser evil for fear of preventing a greater good.

Evil | Fear | Good | Man |

Frank Forrester Church III

There is such a thing as hell on earth. For the most part, it is populated by people who fear so deeply that they cannot love.

Earth | Fear | Hell | Love | People |

Joyce Cary

One does not fear God because He is terrible, but because he is literally the soul of goodness and truth, because to do him wrong is to do wrong to some mysterious part of oneself.

Fear | God | Soul | Truth | Wrong | God |

Francis Herbert Bradley

In religion fear and approval to some extent must always combine... In religion approval implies devotion, and devotion seems hardly possible, unless there is some fear, if only the fear of estrangement.

Devotion | Fear | Religion | Approval |