This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Gottfried Leibniz, fully Gottfried Wilhalm von Leibniz, Baron von Leibnitz
To realize in its completeness the universal beauty and perfection of the works of God, we must recognize a certain perpetual and very free progress of the whole universe, such that it is always going forward to greater improvement... Although many substances have already attained a great perfection, yet on account of the infinite divisibility of the continuous, there always remain in the abyss of things slumbering parts which have yet to be awakened, to grow in size and worth, and, in a word, to advance to a more perfect state. And hence no end of progress is ever reached.
Beauty | God | Improvement | Perfection | Progress | Size | Universe | Wisdom | Worth | Beauty |
Charles F. Kettering, fully Charles Franklin Kettering
The process of progress is trouble.
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.
Conformity | Progress | Wisdom |
Leon Montenaeken, fully Louis Moreau Constant Corneille van Montenaeken
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end. It has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
Circumstances | Progress | War | Wisdom |
Great strides in human progress are being made by men who delve deeply into the imagination, then through the medium of hard work, bring fancy into reality.
Édouard Jules Henri Pailleron
Have success and there will always be fools to say that you have talent.
Business is founded on vision and confidence; success on industry and cooperation.
Business | Confidence | Cooperation | Industry | Success | Vision | Wisdom |
Almost all men are over-anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste fore natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor; and on they go as their fathers went before them, till, weary and sick at heart, they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.
Childhood | Heart | Honor | Life | Life | Men | Progress | Regret | Taste | Time | Wealth | Wisdom | World |
The only thought in the world that is worth anything is free thought. To free thought we owe all past progress and all hope for the future. Since when has any one made it appear that shackled thought could get on better than that which is free? Brains are a great misfortune if one is never to use them.
Better | Future | Hope | Misfortune | Past | Progress | Thought | Wisdom | World | Worth | Misfortune | Thought |