Maimonides famous quotes

04-17-2025

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
-- Maimonides

#Mean #Treated
No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.
-- Maimonides

#Inspiring #Food #Mean
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

#Wisdom #Truth #Facts
Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.
-- Maimonides

#Inspirational #Positive #Honesty
It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.
-- Maimonides

#Nature #Men #Sake
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
-- Maimonides

#Inspirational #Life #Charity
The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
-- Maimonides

#Health #Nursing #Medicine
Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
-- Maimonides

#Angel #Missions
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.
-- Maimonides

#Mother #Animal #Differences
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
-- Maimonides

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
-- Maimonides

#Lying #Liars #Book
In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary
-- Maimonides

#Unnecessary #Realms
There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
-- Maimonides

#Kindness #Men #Eight
We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man.
-- Maimonides

#Men #Charity #Righteous
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
-- Maimonides

#Self Esteem #Decision #Risk
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
-- Maimonides

#Apology #Reality #Accepting
There is no difference between the pain of humans and the pain of other living beings, since the love and tenderness of the mother for the young are not produced by reasoning, but by feeling, and this faculty exists not only in humans but in most living beings.
-- Maimonides

#Mother #Pain #Philosophical
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
-- Maimonides

#Order #Perfection #Wish
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity's golden ladder.
-- Maimonides

#Teaching #Men #Hands
The generation of Isaiah did not require the detailed description; his account, "I saw the Lord," &c., sufficed. The generation of the Babylonian exile wanted to learn all the details. ...Isaiah was so familiar with it that he did not consider it necessary to communicate it to others as a new thing, especially as it was well known to the intelligent.
-- Maimonides

#Intelligent #Details #Generations
He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
-- Maimonides

#Fake People #Confused #Fall
Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
-- Maimonides

#Fitness #Art #Inspire
Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation . . .
-- Maimonides

#Knitting #Hands #Practice
The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.
-- Maimonides

#Soul #Peculiar #Body
One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
-- Maimonides

#Evil #Balance #Deeds
I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
-- Maimonides

#Enemy #Converting
Even when a person suffers pain in consequence of a thorn having entered into his hand, although it is at once drawn out, it is a punishment that has been inflicted on him, and the least pleasure he enjoys is a reward; all this is meted out by strict justice; as is said in the Scripture, "all His ways are judgement" (Deut. xxxii. 4); we are only ignorant of the working of that judgement.
-- Maimonides

#Pain #Hands #Punishment
All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would come to an end] when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.
-- Maimonides

#Religious #Ignorance #Men

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