Quotes by Maimonides

“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.”

“You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.”

“Your purpose...should always be to know...the whole that was intended to be known.”

“The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.”

“You should recognize that mans soul, this single entity whose powers and parts we have described, may be compared to matter, and that the power of reasoning is its completed form. As long as the so...”

“For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which would cause them to remain where they are, or to move other-wise than in a str...”

“No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.”

“Every human being should regard himself as if he were exactly balanced between innocence and guilt. Simultaneously he should regard the world as being in the same case. It follows then that if he p...”

“If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers...”

“He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.”

“Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and p...”

“The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.”

“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 truth removes...”

“You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not accordi...”

“All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, ...”

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. ”

“The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it”

“When the Rabbis stated that obedience or disobedience to the commandments depends not on the will of Hashem but on mans free will, they echoed Jeremiah, who said, Out of the mouth of the Most High ...”

“Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.”

“Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect, they are permanent.”