black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.

Maimonides

He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
MAIMONIDES

Alive Dog Himself Live Understand
Hear the truth from whomever says it.
MAIMONIDES

One Liner Truth
The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
MAIMONIDES

Goal Goodness Health Wisdom
Even the existence of this corporeal element, low as it in reality is, because it is the source of death and all evils, is likewise good for the permanence of the Universe and the continuation of the order of things, so that one thing departs and the other succeeds.
MAIMONIDES

Death Evil Existence Leaving Reality Success
A truth does not become greater by repetition.
MAIMONIDES

Greatness Truth
In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.
MAIMONIDES

Avoid Beginning Philosophy Simplicity Talk
Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
MAIMONIDES

Action Goodness Important Purpose
The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.
MAIMONIDES

Knowledge Understand Word
Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
MAIMONIDES

Art Human Inspirational Love Myself See Suffering
Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
MAIMONIDES

Philosophy Truth Virtue World
Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
MAIMONIDES

Charity Money Poor
A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
MAIMONIDES

Greatness Nation Rule Wisdom Worth
Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
MAIMONIDES

Philosophy Purpose Yourself
Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
MAIMONIDES

Bed Heart Listen Yourself
The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.
MAIMONIDES

Book Evil Greatness Grief Man Old Sick Thinking True Writing
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
MAIMONIDES

Doctor Food

Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Maimonides Quotes