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

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.
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Human Limitation Reason Religious Stop
Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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Philosophy Purpose Yourself
The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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Goal Goodness Health Wisdom
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.
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Knowledge Understand Word
There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother’s love does not derive from the intellect but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans.
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Animal Difference Emotional Human Intellectual Love Mom Worry
All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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Angel Body Force Self Love
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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Doctor Food
Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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Lose Right Truth Wrong
The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
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Himself Man View Youth
Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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Charity Money Poor
God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.
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God Himself Knowledge Philosophy Religious
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
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Better Death Guilty Oneself Person Satisfaction
In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
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Generous Yourself
I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, blessed be his name, is not a body, and that he is free from all accidents of matter, and that he has not any form whatsoever.
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Believe Blessing Faith Myself Perfection
For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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Beginning Need Philosophy
Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
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Difficult Imagination Problem Understand

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

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