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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Baird T. Spalding

The more you impress the truth upon the subconscious by love and worship, the more it will send it back to you. This is where you are the master. For, by forgiving the untruths and letting go of them, you will find that you have mastered them. You are above and beyond them; they are forgiven and forgotten.

Love | Truth | Will | Worship |

Sydney Smith

Justice - Truth is its handmaid, freedom is its child, peace its companion, safety walks in its steps, victory follows in its train; it is the brightest emanation from the gospel; it is the attribute of God.

Freedom | God | Justice | Peace | Truth |

William Shenstone

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

Ends | Falsehood | Truth |

Olive Schreiner

He who sets out in search of Truth must leave Superstition forever and wander down into the land of Absolute Negation and Denial. He must then go… where the mountains of Stern Reality will rise before him. Beyond them lies Truth.

Absolute | Land | Reality | Search | Superstition | Truth | Will |

Vivekananda, fully Sri or Swami Vivekananda, born Narendra Nath Datta NULL

Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.

Truth |

Leo Tolstoy, aka Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Tolstoi

There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent.

Greatness | Simplicity | Truth |

Leo Tolstoy, aka Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Tolstoi

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

Faith | Man | Reason | Truth |

Eckhart Tolle, born Ulrich Leonard Tolle

The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I Am.

Truth |

Valmiki NULL

Truth all religion comprehends, in truth alone is justice placed, in truth the words of God are based.

God | Justice | Religion | Truth | Words | God |

Robert Byrd, fully Robert Carlyle Byrd

Truth has a way of asserting itself despite all attempts to obscure it. Distortion only serves to derail it for a time. No matter to what lengths we humans may go to obfuscate facts or delude our fellows, truth has a way of squeezing out through the cracks, eventually.

Time | Truth |

Simone Weil

What did grieve me was the idea of being excluded from the transcendent kingdom to which only the truly great has access and wherein truth abides. I preferred to die rather than live with that truth… [the very moment of death] was the centre and object of life… the instant when, for an infinitesimal fraction of time, pure truth, naked, certain and eternal, enters the soul.

Death | Eternal | Life | Life | Object | Soul | Time | Truth |

Algernon D Black

Why not let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the Universe? Let each seek one's own way to the highest, to one's own sense of supreme loyalty in life, one's ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each world-view bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, that people may grow in vision, stature and dedication.

Beauty | Dedication | Life | Life | Loyalty | Loyalty | People | Philosophy | Sense | Truth | Universe | Vision | World | Beauty |

Charles Bradlaugh

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful. Better a thousand fold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people.

Abuse | Better | Day | Discovery | Free speech | Life | Life | People | Search | Speech | Truth | Discovery |