Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Related Quotes

Eugene P. Bertin, fully Eugene Peter Bertin

Learning is the heart of life - the mystical power that turns a word into a sign, a look into a smile, a house into a home, and a people into a civilization.

Civilization | Heart | Learning | Life | Life | Mystical | People | Power | Smile | Wisdom |

Bernard Baruch, fully Bernard Mannes Baruch

We must remember that the people do not belong to the government but that governments belong to the peoples.

Government | People | Wisdom | Government |

Henri Bergson, aka Henri-Louis Bergson

Anyone who is thoroughly familiar with the language and literature of a people cannot be wholly its enemy.

Enemy | Language | Literature | People | Wisdom |

Marjorie Barstow

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature. But beautiful old people are works of art.

Art | Nature | People | Wisdom | Old |

Big Elk, aka Ontopanga NULL

Do not grieve. Misfortunes will happen to the wisest and best of men. Death will come, always out of season. It is the command of the Great Spirit, and all nations and people must obey. What is past and what cannot be prevented should not be grieved for... Misfortunes do not flourish particularly in our lives - they grow everywhere.

Death | Men | Nations | Past | People | Spirit | Will | Wisdom |

Harvey A. Blodgett

Thrift is not, as many suppose, a self repression. It is self expression, the demonstration of a will and ability to raise one's self to a higher plane of living. No depression was ever caused by people having too much money in reserve. No human being ever became a social drifter through the practice of sensible thrift.

Ability | Depression | Money | People | Practice | Reserve | Self | Thrift | Will | Wisdom |

Walter Bagehot

The reason so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know something.

Books | Good | People | Reason | Wisdom |

William Blake

To some people a tree is something so incredibly beautiful that it brings tears to the eyes. To others it is just a green thing that stands in the way.

People | Tears | Wisdom |

Clive Barnes, fully Clive Alexander Barnes

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everyone and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Culture | People | Television | Wisdom |

Bible or The Bible or Holy Bible NULL

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

People | Vision | Wisdom |

Srully Blotnick

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their "luck" arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.

Dedication | Luck | Majority | People | Study | Wisdom | Work |

John L Beckley

Most people don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.

People | Plan | Wisdom |

Anthony of Sourozh, fully Archbishop Metropolitan Anthony Bloom of Sourozh NULL

People are much greater and stronger than we imagine, and when unexpected tragedy comes we see them often grow to a stature that is far beyond anything we imagined. We must remember that people are capable of greatness, of courage, but not in isolation. They need the conditions of solidly linked human unit in which everyone is prepared to bear the burden of others.

Courage | Greatness | Isolation | Need | People | Tragedy | Wisdom |

Jean de La Bruyère

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering the position.

Man | People | Position | Wisdom |

Jean de La Bruyère

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

Better | Heart | People | Wisdom |

Horatius Bonar

Life is a journey, not a home; a road, not a city of habitation; and the enjoyments and blessings we have are but little inns on the roadside of life, where we may be refreshed for a moment, that we may with new strength press on to the end - to the rest that remaineth for the people of God.

Blessings | God | Journey | Life | Life | Little | People | Rest | Strength | Wisdom |

Nelson Boswell

Here is a simple but powerful rule. Always give people more than they expect to get.

People | Rule | Wisdom |