This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Each generation of Americans has outstripped its parents in education, in literacy, and in economic attainment. For the first time in the history of our country, the educational skills of one generation will not surpass, will not equal, will not even approach those of their parents.
Attainment | Education | History | Parents | Time | Will | Wisdom |
There was plainly wanting a divine revelation to recover mankind out of their universal corruption and degeneracy.
Corruption | Degeneracy | Mankind | Revelation | Wisdom |
It takes a long time to understand nothing.
Nothing | Time | Wisdom | Understand |
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered, which can seldom or never be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best.
Excellence | God | Good | Impulse | Life | Life | Longing | Soul | Time | Wisdom | Excellence |
Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.
Learning | Men | Philosophy | Wisdom |
Joseph Conrad, born Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski
There is never enough time to say our last word - the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.
Desire | Enough | Faith | Love | Remorse | Submission | Time | Wisdom |
Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open-mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish water-proof to new ideas.
Ability | Curiosity | Humility | Ideas | Ignorance | Learning | Mind | Wisdom |
People sometimes refer to higher education as the higher learning, but colleges and universities are much more than the knowledge factories; they are testaments to man's perennial struggle to make a better world for himself, his children, and his children's children. This, indeed, is their sovereign purpose. They are great fortifications against ignorance and irrationality; but they are more than places of higher learning - they are centers and symbols of man's higher yearning.
Better | Children | Education | Ignorance | Knowledge | Learning | Man | People | Purpose | Purpose | Struggle | Wisdom | World |
Myers Y. Cooper, fully Myers Young Cooper
It has been well stated "that the pioneer is a creature not of time but of spirit."