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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William Ellery Channing

Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed in to a man may regenerate him.

Earth | Ideas | Influence | Man | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

William Ellery Channing

It is the mind which does the work of the world, so that the more there is of mind, the more work will be accomplished.

Mind | Will | Wisdom | Work | World |

William Ellery Channing

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

Government | Men | Office | Opportunity | Wisdom | Work | Government | Happiness |

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery - into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.

Intelligence | Mortal | Mystery | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

Frank Gelett Burgess

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play tht is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

Play | Wisdom | Work |

Samuel Butler

An honest God's the noblest work of man.

God | Man | Wisdom | Work |

François-René de Chateaubriand, fully François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand

As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before.

Light | Mind | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

Samuel Butler

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

Man | Wisdom | Work |

Elihu Burritt

All that I have accomplished, or expect or hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plotting, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.

Hope | Thought | Will | Wisdom | Thought |

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.

Events | Ideas | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

William Benton Clulow

I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valuable than a hundred original thoughts.

Esteem | Excellence | Thought | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom | Excellence | Thought |

Calvin Coolidge, fully John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Ability | Discipline | Experience | Knowledge | Mind | Time | Wisdom | Work |

Robert Collier

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

Enough | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

Clarence Darrow, fully Clarence Seward Darrow

When we abandon the thought of immortality we at least have cast out fear. We gain a certain dignity and self-respect. We regard our fellow travelers as companions in the pleasures and tribulations of life... We gain kinship with the world.

Dignity | Fear | Immortality | Life | Life | Regard | Respect | Self | Thought | Tribulations | Wisdom | World | Thought |

Robert Collier

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.

Mind | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

Samuel McChord Crothers

Our thought is the key which unlocks the doors of the world.

Thought | Wisdom | World | Thought |