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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Albert Einstein

In war it serves that we may poison and mutilate each other. In peace it has made our lives hurried and uncertain. Instead of freeing us in great measure from spiritually exhausting labor, it has made men into slaves of machinery, who for the most part complete their monotonous long days' work with disgust and must continually tremble for their poor rations.

Labor | Men | Peace | War | Wisdom | Work |

Frederic Eggleston, fully Sir Frederic William Eggleston

The great task of peace is to work morals into it. The only sort of peace that will be real is one in which everybody takes his share or responsibility. World organizations and conferences will be of no value unless there is improvement in the relation of men to men.

Improvement | Men | Peace | Responsibility | Will | Wisdom | Work | World | Value |

Charles de Saint-Évremond, fully Charles Marguetel de Saint-Denis, seigneur de Évremond

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.

Excellence | Self | Wisdom | Work |

James "Jim" L. Foster

To have thought far too little, we shall find in the review of life, among our capital faults.

Life | Life | Little | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

Randolph S. Foster, fully Randolph Sinks Foster

As we look up into these glorious culminations, how grand life becomes! To be forever with the Lord, and forever changing into His likeness, and, still more, forever depending in the companionship of His thought and bliss, “from glory to glory” - could we desire more?

Desire | Glory | Life | Life | Lord | Thought | Wisdom | Companionship | Thought |

Alexander Fleming, fully Sir Alexander Fleming

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought and perception of an individual.

Individual | Perception | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

William Feather

The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.

Effort | Man | Receive | Rule | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

Henry Gregor Felsen

The magic of marriage is that it creates meaningful goals to work for, struggle for, sacrifice for. It is the joint struggle that gives the relationship its meaning, and keeps people alive.

Goals | Magic | Marriage | Meaning | People | Relationship | Sacrifice | Struggle | Wisdom | Work |

Bernice Bowles "Fitz" Fitz-Gibbon

Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago.

Little | Right | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

William Feather

The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work.

Thought | Wisdom | Work | Thought |

B. C. Forbes, fully Bertie Charles "B.C." Forbes

Almost every conspicuously successful American owes his rise to having thrown himself heartily into his work and to having done it better than ordinary. Promotion comes to those who demonstrate that they can do more and better work than others. Look upon your work as the lever by which you can rise in the world. To get the best and the most out of life, put the best and the most of yourself into it. Eventually each of us gets rewards we merit.

Better | Life | Life | Merit | Wisdom | Work | World |

Henry Ford

The object of living is work, experience, happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Experience | Joy | Money | Object | Wisdom | Work | Happiness |

Lowell Fillmore

Every individual is a king in the castle of his own mind. As king of his thoughts he can think those thought which will make him an unhappy and fearful monarch, or he can make his reign joyous and harmonious by listening to the Father within himself before making decisions.

Father | Individual | Listening | Mind | Thought | Will | Wisdom | Think | Thought |