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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Richard and Mary-Alice Jafolla

Personal relationships are a major cause of unhappiness... Trying to find successful ways of dealing with people according to their personality traits is futile and time-consuming, and it puts the emphasis on outer characteristics rather than where it belongs, which is on the inner... There is an underlying sameness to us all... Operating from the space-time continuum, it is too easy to see others as different from us, to see boundaries, to be exclusive. Operating from our spiritual center, however, is to see others as part of ourselves, to see no boundaries, to be inclusive.

Cause | Character | People | Personality | Space | Time | Unhappiness |

BaMishol HaTzar. Kabak

You are rich, though you do not know it. You have wells of kindness within your heart. At times man will bless you more for a smile, a kindly glance, a gesture of forgiveness, than for treasures of gold.

Character | Forgiveness | Gold | Heart | Kindness | Man | Smile | Will |

Garrison Keillor, fully Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor

It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

Character | Happy | Think |

Stewart B. Johnson

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves - to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterdays by our today, to do our work with more force than ever before.

Business | Character | Force | Life | Life | Work | Business |

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.

Character | Good | Kindness | Praise |

Carl Jung, fully Carl Gustav Jung

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Character | Understanding |

Walter Savage Landor

It is easy to look down on others; to look down on others is the difficulty.

Character | Difficulty |

Niccolò Machiavelli, formally Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

Men almost always walk in the paths trodden by others proceeding in their actions by imitation.

Character | Imitation | Men |

Niccolò Machiavelli, formally Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

There are three classes [kinds] of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.

Character | Good |

Byron J. Langenfeld

Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.

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