This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsel." - Joseph Addison
"A positive emotional state entrains, or unites, our systems for thought, feeling, and action; shifts our concentration and energy toward support of our intellectual and creative forebrain (old mammalian and neocortex); and allows us to both learn and remember easily. In very young children, the primary caregiver’s emotional state determines the child’s state, and therefore the child’s development in general. Any kind of negative response, any form of fear or anger shifts our attention and energy from verbal-intellectual brain to our oldest survival brain. This shift shortchanges our intellect, cripples our learning and memory, and can lock our neocortex into service of our lower brain." - Joseph Chilton Pearce, aka Joe
"In periods of frustration, fear, or anger, the em spectrum is incoherent. In times when love or appreciation is experiences, it is coherent." - Joseph Chilton Pearce, aka Joe
"Anger is fuel. We feel it and we want to do something... Anger is meant to be listened to... Anger is not the action itself. It is action's invitation." - Julia Cameron
"Reason is light in darkness, as anger is darkness amidst light. Be wise - let Reason, not Impulse, be your guide." - Kahlil Gibran
"Anger is the one thing made better by delay." - Latin Proverbs
"Humanity is the peculiar characteristic of great minds; little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the exact pleasure of forgiving their enemies." - Lord Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
"Enmity is anger waiting for a chance for revenge." - Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
"Hatred is a settled anger." - Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
"We are at a crossroads; I am at a crossroads; you are at a crossroads. We are in the midst of an age-old story, that of the forces of light versus the forces of darkness. Will we choose the path of fear, anger, and revenge, or will we choose the path of nonviolence and hope?" - Michael Toms
"Like fragile ice anger passes away in time." - Ovid, formally Publius Ovidius Naso NULL
"Indulgence in constant thoughts of fear, anger, melancholy, remorse, envy, sorrow, hatred, discontent, or worry; and lack of the necessities for normal and happy living, such as right food, proper exercise, fresh air, sunshine, agreeable work and a purpose in life, all are causes of nervous disease." - Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
"As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them: they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs." - Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
"Pain, it is true, transmuted, so to say, by its own fiery heat into anger, loses every appearance of depression and feebleness; the angry man makes a show of energy, as the man in a high fever does of natural heat, while, in fact, all this action of soul is but mere diseased palpitation, distention, and inflammation." - Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
"Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty." - Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
"Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance." - Pythagoras, aka Pythagoras of Samos or Pythagoras the Samian NULL
"A man... makes his inferiors his superiors by heat [anger]." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Three things are known only in three places: Valour, which knows itself only in war; Wisdom, only in anger; and Friendship, only in need." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm." - Robert Ingersoll, fully Robert Green "Bob" Ingersoll
"Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind." - Robert Ingersoll, fully Robert Green "Bob" Ingersoll
"For all the psychological and physiological conditions which test integrity - fear, desire, hunger, fatigue, disaffection, anger, pain - have little reality in memory or anticipation but rather exist for the most part in the narrow immediacy of the present." - Robert Grudin
"There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust." - Saint Francis de Sales NULL
"Anger deprives a sage of his wisdom, a prophet of his vision." - Simeon ben Lakish, or Shimon ben Lakish or Reish Lakish
"Anger is rooted in our lack of understanding of ourselves and of the causes, deep-seated as well as immediate, that brought about this unpleasant state of affairs. Anger is also rooted in desire, pride, agitation and suspicion. The primary roots of our anger are in ourselves. Our environment and other people are only secondary. It is not difficult for us to accept the enormous damage brought abut by a natural disaster, such as an earthquake or a flood. But when damage is caused by another person, we don’t have much patience. We know that earthquakes and floods have causes, and we should see that the person who has precipitated our anger also has reasons, deep-seated and immediate, for what he has done." - Thich Nhất Hanh
"In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves." - Thomas Carlyle
"Anger is many times more hurtful, than the Injury that caused it." - Thomas Fuller
"Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind." - Thomas Fuller
"Anger begins with Folly, and ends with Repentance." - Thomas Fuller
"Anger is a sworn Enemy. Anger is the Fever and Frenzy of the Soul. Anger makes a rich Man hated, and a poor Man scorned. Anger may glance into the Breast of wise Man, but rests only in the Bosom of Fools." - Thomas Fuller
"Anger is one of the sinews of the soul." - Thomas Fuller
"Almost all the trouble in the world is created by things people think, say and write. Words of anger, malice, hatred, resentment, jealously, like physical blows, cause people to hit back. Over-bearing, demanding words create determined resistance. And the attitudes of mind back of them, even though we do not speak the words, are sensed by others. For the telepathic power of thought is no longer merely a theory. Thoughts are things." - Wilferd Peterson, fully Wilferd Arlan Peterson
"Rewarding the unworthy causes alienation; punishing the innocent causes resentment. Those whose appreciation or anger are unpredictable perish." - Zhuge Liang, courtesy name Kongming
"The object of government is not to change men from rational beings into beasts or puppets, but to enable them to develop their minds and bodies in security, and to employ their reason unshackled; neither showing hatred, anger or deceit, nor watched with the eyes of jealousy and injustice. In fact, the true aim of government is liberty." -
"Restrain anger." - Chilon of Lacedemon NULL
"Anger is the only thing to put off until tomorrow." - Czech Proverbs
"Let us examine more closely the significance of this vague word, reality. It may have several meanings, according to the different points of view which one takes. We may regard it as embodied in the physical world, the world of land and sea, of sky and trees, of sunshine and of storm. The real therefore will be to us that which we can touch and see, smell and taste, as one will say, "I know that is real for I can see it with my eyes." Seeing is believing, and the testimony of the senses is the superior court of appeal in controverted questions. But the world of reality may be regarded from quite a different point of view, as the world of consciousness, the mind of man, the experiences of the inner self, the Ego. Here is a world of phenomena interrelated and reciprocally dependent. It is a realm of ideas, of memory images, of fancy, of will, and of desire. The verities in this world cannot be seen, or measured, or weighed, and yet we do not hesitate to speak of them as realities; they are real as the love of friends is real, or the anger of a foe. The passion of a Romeo, the will of a Napoleon, the genius of a Goethe ... these are realities." - John Grier Hibben
"As for the passions and studies of the mind: avoid envy; anxious fears; anger fretting inwards; subtle and knotty inquisitions; joys and exhilarations in excess; sadness not communicated. Entertain hopes; mirth rather than joy; variety of delights, rather than surfeit of them; wonder and admiration, and therefore novelties; studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature." - Francis Bacon
"Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice. " - Francis Quarles
"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." - George T. Lucas, fully George Walton Lucas, Jr.
"Do not allow anger to poison you." - Hopi Proverbs
"The ten vices are as follows: killing, stealing, carnality, lying, slander, coarse language, affected speech, cupidity, anger and perverse views. The ten virtues are quite simply defined as not engaging in the ten vices." - Ta-chu Hui-Hai
"Compassion is not against anger. When anger disappears, compassion is. Compassion is not to be fought for; it is not against passion. When passion disappears, compassion is. Compassion is your nature." - Osho, born Chandra Mohan Jain, also known as Acharya Rajneesh and Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh NULL
"Understanding transforms, it does not sublimate. If you understand, anger disappears and the same energy becomes compassion. Not that you sublimate: anger simply disappears, and the energy that was involved, invested in anger, is released and becomes compassion. When you understand hate, hate disappears and the same energy becomes love. Love is not against hate -- it is absence of hate." - Osho, born Chandra Mohan Jain, also known as Acharya Rajneesh and Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh NULL
"Awareness means that whatsoever is happening in the moment is happening with complete consciousness; you are present there. If you are present when anger is happening, anger cannot happen. It can happen only when you are fast asleep. When you are present, immediate, transformation starts in your being, because when you are present, aware, many things are simply not possible. All that is called sin is not possible if you are aware. So, in fact, there is only one sin and that is unawareness." - Osho, born Chandra Mohan Jain, also known as Acharya Rajneesh and Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh NULL
"What most increases anger is the feeling that one is in the wrong. " - Jean Paul, born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, aka Jean Paul Richter
"A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life." - Josiah Gilbert Holland, also Joshua Gilbert Holland
"The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it." - Katharine Graham