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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Joseph Conrad, born Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski

Any fool can carry on, but only the wise can shorten sail.

Wisdom | Wise |

Robert Conkin, aka Bob Conkin

Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.

Change | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

Isaac D'Israeli

The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places; and men of genius, in their walks at table, and amidst assemblies, turning the eye of the mind inwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly.

Art | Folly | Genius | Meditation | Men | Mind | Solitude | Wisdom | Wise | Art |

Tyron Edwards

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your household.

Apothegms | Children | Duty | Family | Maxims | Mind | Sound | Teach | Thought | Truth | Will | Wisdom | Thought |

Albert Einstein

Before God we are all equally wise - equally foolish.

God | Wisdom | Wise | God |

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

One thought cannot wake without awakening others.

Awakening | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

John William Draper

Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

Absolute | Individual | Nothing | Thought | Time | Wisdom | Thought |

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The wise man is seldom prudent.

Man | Wisdom | Wise |

Tyron Edwards

Change of opinion is often only the progress of sound thought and growing knowledge; and though sometimes regarded as an inconsistency, it is but the noble inconsistency natural to a mind ever ready for growth and expansion of thought, and that never fears to follow where truth and duty may lead the way.

Change | Duty | Growth | Inconsistency | Knowledge | Mind | Opinion | Progress | Sound | Thought | Truth | Wisdom | Thought |

Isaac D'Israeli

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation.

Experience | Wisdom | Wise |

Mary Baker Eddy

The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible.

Achievement | Devotion | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

Tyron Edwards

He that resolves upon any great and good end, has, by the very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will find such resolution removing difficulties, searching out or making means, giving courage for despondency, and strength for weakness and like the star to the wise men of old, ever guiding him nearer and nearer to perfection.

Courage | Despondency | Giving | Good | Means | Men | Perfection | Resolution | Strength | Weakness | Will | Wisdom | Wise |

W. H. Dixon, fully William Henry Dixon

Men who are wise are wise in time.

Men | Time | Wisdom | Wise |

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

How wise must one be to be always kind.

Wisdom | Wise |

George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

Man | Wisdom | Wise |