Maimonides Quotes

You should recognize that man’s soul, this single entity whose powers and parts we have described, m...

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of...

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

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not b...

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

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited e...

If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the ey...

Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form,...

All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, ...

For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have n...

When the Rabbis stated that obedience or disobedience to the commandments depends not on the will of...

Every human being should regard himself as if he were exactly balanced between innocence and guilt. ...

The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then ph...

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

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 ...

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less...

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