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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Saint Teresa of Ávila, aka Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada NULL

To seek God within ourselves avails us far more than to look for Him amongst creatures.

Courage | Life | Life |

Sallust, full name Carus Valerius Sailustius Crispus NULL

To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship [what makes a solid friendship].

Battle | Body | Courage | Enemy | Hope | Afraid |

Samuel Gompers

We deny the assertion made by some of our opponents when they say the American Federation of Labor is against political action. We are against the the American labor movement being made a political party machine.

Contempt | Courage | Government | Improvement | Mercy | Nothing | Order | Purpose | Purpose | Rights | Time | Will | Government | Guilty |

Samuel Ullman

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

Courage | Heart | Men | Power |

Samuel Ullman

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Appetite | Courage | Heart | Joy | Men | Power |

Sidney Hook

It still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs about the existence of God in any recognizable sense continuous with the great systems of the past, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.

Better | Cause | Courage | Fate | Freedom | Intelligence | Life | Life | Man | Men | Price | Survival | Will | Worth | Fate |

Sydney J. Harris

The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump; the second shuns reason entirely — which is why superstition is not the ally, but the enemy, of true religion.

Courage | Nothing | World |

Simone de Beauvoir, fully Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

Courage | Guarantee | Office | Words | Happiness |

Simone de Beauvoir, fully Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir

I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.

Courage | Love | Need | Rest | Think | Understand |

Arthur Conan Doyle, fully Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

Courage | Curiosity | Familiarity |

Arthur Conan Doyle, fully Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle

'Good morning, madam’, said Holmes, cheerily. 'My name is Sherlock Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as freely as before myself.’

Courage | Patience | Truth |

Arthur Conan Doyle, fully Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle

I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.

Courage | Danger | Means | Stupidity | Danger | Think | Understand |

Thérèse de Lisieux, fully Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin NULL

O my God, Thou knowest I have never desired but to love Thee alone. I seek no other glory. Thy Love has gone before me from my childhood, it has grown with my growth, and now it is an abyss the depths of which I cannot fathom.

Better | Children | Courage | Force | God | Good | Knowing | Prayer | Strength | God |

Stanislaw I, born Stanisław Leszczyński, also spelled Stanislaus NULL

How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!

Courage | Difficulty |

John Climacus, fully Saint John Climacus, aka John of the Ladder, John Scholasticus and John Sinaites

Let us charge into the good fight with joy and love without being afraid of our enemies. Though unseen themselves, they can look at the face of our soul, and if they see it altered by fear, they take up arms against us all the more fiercely. For the cunning creatures have observed that we are scared. So let us take up arms against them courageously. No one will fight with a resolute fighter.

Courage | Experience | Health | Will |

Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl of Bewdley

A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like a child who sings at night when he is afraid

Courage | Time | Wants |

Stephen Hawking

I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.

Attention | Courage | People | Public | Think |

Stephen Leacock, fully Stephen Butler Leacock

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it

Courage | Good |

Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.

Courage | Day | Quiet | Will |

Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt

Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck. An epidemic in indiscriminate assault upon character does not good, but very great harm. There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful.

Courage | Envy | Good | Government | Justice | Men | People | Power | Qualities | Rights | Sense | Spirit | Strength | Government |