This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
Ends | Improvement | Knowledge | Understanding |
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.
Change | Good | Knowledge | Reality | Universe | World | Poem |
Suffering is born of wrong thinking. The root of pain is error in perception . There can be no error in Truth, only errors in the perception of Truth. If you yearn to end human suffering, know, then, what is Real, for this Knowledge is the only source of invincible faith.
Error | Faith | Knowledge | Pain | Perception | Suffering | Thinking | Truth | Wrong |
The secret of success [in education] is pace, and the secret of pace is concentration. But, in respect to precise knowledge, the watchwords is pace, pace, pace. Get your knowledge quickly, and then use it. If you can use it, you will retain it.
Education | Knowledge | Respect | Success | Will | Respect |
A good government implies two things: first, fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained. Some governments are deficient in both these qualities; most governments are deficient in the first.
Fidelity | Good | Government | Knowledge | Means | Object | People | Qualities | Government | Happiness |