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Maimonides Quotes

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

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Philosopher Quotes
Category:
Spanish Philosopher Quotes
Date of Birth:
March 30, 1135
Date of Death:
December 13, 1204
Nationality:
Spanish
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You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
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No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.
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Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
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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

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.
Maimonides

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
Maimonides


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Decision, Indecision, Preferable, Risk, Terror, Wrong
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Decision, Indecision, Preferable, Risk, Terror, Wrong
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