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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Sandra Carey

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom – one helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Knowledge | Life | Life | Mistake | Wisdom |

Winston Churchill, fully Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Destiny | Mistake | Time |

Tom Butler-Bowdon

Personal growth is often the result not of doing something new, but of seeing the same things in a new light. We all have mental maps of our world that we mistake for the actual territory. By clinging on to old maps we fail to see the true lie of the land and get lost.

Growth | Land | Light | Mistake | World | Old |

Gustave Flaubert

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Good | Health | Stupidity |

Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it.

Health | Nothing |

Betty Fussell

The medical establishment, focusing on pathology and chemical treatment by drugs, has long equated diet with what’s put on hospital trays. Even today, when five of America’s major health problems – heart, liver, cancer, diabetes and cerebrovascular diseases – have been proved to be related to diet, just 23 percent of American medical schools require a course in nutrition, and many offer none.

Diet | Health | Heart | Problems |

Aelred Graham

Where religion goes wrong it is because, in one form or another, men have made the mistake of trying to turn to God without turning away from self.

God | Men | Mistake | Religion | Self | Wrong | God |

Thomas Jefferson

Giving about two [hours], every day, to exercise; for health must not be sacrificed to learning. A strong body makes a strong mind.

Body | Day | Giving | Health | Learning | Mind |

Doug Larson

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

Conscience | Memory | Mistake | People |

Yukio Mishima

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill-health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

Gloom | Health | Serenity | Work |

Ramón Magsaysay

The mistake the world is making with the simple peoples is to try and hurry them into political concepts they don’t understand and aren’t prepared to cope with. I know. I am a peasant myself.

Hurry | Mistake | World | Understand |

Muhammad, also spelled Mohammad, Mohammed or Mahomet, full name Muhammad Ibn `Abd Allāh Ibn `Abd al-Muttalib NULL

There are two benefits, of which the generality of men are losers, and of which they do not know the value, health and leisure.

Health | Leisure | Men |

Thomas Lickona, fully Thomas Edward Lickona

Schools cannot be ethical bystanders at a time when our society is in deep moral trouble. Rather, schools must do what they can to contribute to the character of the young and the moral health of the nation.

Character | Health | Society | Time | Society |