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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Wilhelm Reich

We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs.

Awareness | Children | Desire | Distress | Energy | Life | Life | Pain | Surplus | Thought | Awareness | Thought |

Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

Children | Little | Play | Talking |

Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

Better | Children | Experience | Happy | Think |

Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney

Our part in things is to build along the lines we are known for, with happy family stories and comedies. I've never thought of this as art. It's part of show-business.

Children | Ideas | Teach |

Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney

The difference in winning and losing is most often... not quitting.

Curiosity | Happy | Sense | World | Child |

Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney

I have more latitude in television than I ever had before. If I had an idea for something, I had to then go and try to sell it to the distributors, to the theater men, and everyone else. With television, I just get my gang together and we say we think that will be something interesting – let’s do it. And I go direct to that public.

Children | Trouble |

Walter Brueggemann

It is the task of prophetic imagination and ministry to bring people to engage the promise of newness that is at work in our history with God.

Alienation | Children | Energy | Life | Life | Love | Position |

Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman

Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof, Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content, Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things; Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.

Children | Day | Earth | Light | Men | Miracles | Nothing | Quiet | Space | Old |

Walter Lippmann

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

Children | Freedom | Men | Learn |

Walter Lippmann

We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.

Children | Good | Struggle | Time |

Walter Savage Landor

The monument of the greatest man should be only a bust and a name. - If the name alone is insufficient to illustrate the bust, let them both perish.

Children | Love | Tears | Thought | Waste | Thought |

Walter Rauschenbusch

In all nations the atmosphere of the aristocratic groups drugs the sense of obligation, and possesses the mind with the notion that the life and labor of men are made to play tennis with. The existence of great permanent groups, feeding but not producing, dominating and directing the life of whole nations according to their own needs, may well seem a supreme proof of the power of evil in humanity.

Children | Doctrine |

Walter Savage Landor

There is a mountain and a wood between us, where the lone shepherd and late bird have seen us morning and noon and eventide repass. Between us now the mountain and the wood seem standing darker than last year they stood, and say we must not cross--alas! alas!

Eternal | Knowing | Labor | Life | Life | Time | Will |

Walter Savage Landor

Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.

Children | God | Joy | Magic | Memory | Mortal | Promise | Words | God | Child | Old | Think |

Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha

Money will always flow toward opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America. Commentators today often talk of "great uncertainty." But think back, for example, to December 6, 1941, October 18, 1987 and September 10, 2001. No matter how serene today may be, tomorrow is always uncertain. Don't let that reality spook you. Throughout my lifetime, politicians and pundits have constantly moaned about terrifying problems facing America. Yet our citizens now live an astonishing six times better than when I was born. The prophets of doom have overlooked the all-important factor that is certain: Human potential is far from exhausted, and the American system for unleashing that potential - a system that has worked wonders for over two centuries despite frequent interruptions for recessions and even a Civil War - remains alive and effective.

Change | Love | People |

Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha

We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous. ...So we use lots of things daily that are dangerous, but we generally pay some attention to how they're used. We tell the cars how fast they can go.

Children | Fortune | Safe | Value |

Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha

The policies that we're following are likely to lead to a weaker dollar over a long period of years. It's not a forecast for next week, or next month or even next year.

Children | Money |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

Make yourself available for success, and know and trust in an invisible force that's all-providing.

Children | Praise |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

If you want to achieve something that has always eluded you, for this day act as if it were already here.

Children | Self-confidence | Will |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

Enlightenment demands that you take responsibility for your way of life.

Children | Safe |