Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
MAIMONIDESA truth does not become greater by repetition.
More Maimonides Quotes
-
-
Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
MAIMONIDES -
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
MAIMONIDES -
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others, for the knowledge of the truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
MAIMONIDES -
It is man’s duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
MAIMONIDES -
There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
MAIMONIDES -
The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
MAIMONIDES -
Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil. With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.
MAIMONIDES -
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 -
Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
MAIMONIDES -
In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
MAIMONIDES -
Astrology is a disease, not a science. It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. Only fools and charlatans lend value to it.
MAIMONIDES -
Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
MAIMONIDES -
Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
MAIMONIDES -
Hold firmly to your word.
MAIMONIDES -
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
MAIMONIDES