Top 14 Maimonides Quotes



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.

 

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

 

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 of the body are all alike in this respect.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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 according to imagination.

 

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

 

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, which is absence of wisdom.

 

 

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