Solomon Ibn Gabirol famous quotes

04-19-2025

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Patience #Tests #Patient
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Wisdom #Desire
Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Wise #Wisdom #Kings
Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Expectations #Forever #World
Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Wise #Men #Fool
Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Worry #Serious
Drink poison rather than worry.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Worry #Drink
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Inspirational #Memories #Teaching
A wise man's questions contain half the answer.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Wise #Men #Answers
Riches bring anxiety; wisdom gives peace of mind.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Peace #Giving #Anxiety
Faith is the summit of the Torah.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Torah #Summit
Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Secret #Slave #Prisoner
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Jealousy #Fire #Coal
Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Husband #Men #Wife
Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Grace
A wise man's question contains half the answer. Unfortunately the other 50% is harder to come by!
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Wise #Men #Half
As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Long #Slave #Masters
One is punished by the very things by which he sins.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Sin
A manâ€™s mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Writing #Men #Light
I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Silence #Able
There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. The man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Wise #Men #World
As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Daughter #Honesty #Lilies
There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Medicine #Needs #Want
The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Rude #Good Man #Sage
All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Men #Going Out #Entrances
If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Enemy #Want
My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Friendship #Best Friend #Real Friends
And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Voice #Air #Earth
A tiny fly can choke a big man.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Men #Tiny #Choke

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