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

Education, Day, Man

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

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

Risk, Decision, Chance

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

Liar, Pen, Tongue

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

Truth, Accept, You

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

Religion, Fall, Confused

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

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

Diet, Disease, Should

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.

Mind, Man, Follow

It is necessary to bear in mind that Scripture only teaches the chief points of those true principles which lead to the true perfection of man, and only demands in general terms faith in them.

Faith, Mind, Perfection

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

Charity, Poverty, Anticipate

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress. - Maimonides

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

Progress, Know, Teach

All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.

Man, Intellectual, Person

Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.

End, Man, Reach

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

Mathematics, Perfection

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

Religion, Bible, Opinion

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.

Power, Limit, Distance

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.

Respect, Power, Body

It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems.

Problems, True, Solution

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.

Respect, Power, Greatness

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.

Good, Evil, Balance

The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

Man, Youth, Opinions

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

Limit, Reason, Human

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

Law, Perfect, Possible

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.

You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.

Reading, Perception, Mental

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.

Imagination, World, Reality

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.

Respect, Substance, Through

Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Philosopher

Born: March 30, 1135

Died: December 13, 1204

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