Quotes by Jewish Authors - Page 2

If not you, then who? If not now, when?
Hillel first- century Jewish scholar
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Gospel of Mark ~ Mark 8:36
Jesus Christ
I Am The Way, The Truth and The Life; no one comes to The Father but by Me
Jesus Christ
The paper burns, but the words fly free.
Akiba Ben Joseph
The day is short, the labor vast, the toilers idle, the reward great, and the Master urgent.
Tarphon
The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.
Maimonides
Ask not for a lighter load but for broader shoulders
Jewish Proverb
Strive not with a man that is full of tongue, and heap not wood upon his fire. Jest not with a rude man, lest thine ancestors be disgraced
Sirach
Your purpose...should always be to know...the whole that was intended to be known.
Maimonides
You should recognize that man’s 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 soul lies dormant and does not acquire its form from knowledge, then the nature of the soul is useless and exists in vain.
Maimonides
It is finished.
Jesus Christ
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 straight line, These rectilinear motions of these four elements when returning to their original place are are of two kinds, either centrifugal,vziz.>the motion of the air and the fire; or centripedal,viz.> the motion of the earth, and the water; and when the elements have reached their original place, they remain at rest.
Maimonides
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 straight line, These rectilinear motions of these four elements when returning to their original place are are of two kinds, either centrifugal,vziz.>the motion of the air and the fire; or centripedal,viz.> the motion of the earth, and the water; and when the elements have reached their original place, they remain at rest.
Maimonides
Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.
Philo of Alexandria
If what is soft wears down the hard, how much the more so shall the words of the Torah, which are as hard as iron, hollow out my heart, which is flesh and blood.
Akiba Ben Joseph
‎"With each experience we grow and become more aware of the inner beauty that lies within us. Ultimately we are truly our own leader. We lead the connection and flow of life that is our inheritance.
Rabbi Yossi
Remember it is not you who supports the root, but the root that supports you.
Apostle Paul -- Letter to the Romans
What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
Apostle Paul -- Letter to the Romans
If they do these things when the tree is green, what will they do when it is dry?
Jesus of Nazareth -- Book of Luke
The Wise are Superb Observers of Nature and Rise Superior to the Blows of Fortune
Philo of Alexandria
You Who'd be Wise" from "Ben Mishle" written sometime between 1013 and 1050 C.E.You who'd be wiseshould inquire into the nature of justice and evilfrom your teachers,seekers like yourself, and the studentswho question your answer.
Shmuel HaNagid
The Limit of Happiness Is the Presence of GodBut it is something great that Abraham asks, namely that God shall not pass by nor remove to a distance and leave his soul desolate and empty (Gen. 18:3). For the limit of happiness is the presence of God, which completely fills the whole soul with his whole incorporeal and eternal light.
Philo of Alexandria
My soul doth magnify the Lord,And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
Mary (mother of Jesus)
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
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.
Maimonides