The Jewish Wisdom Database

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it ?

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals, who, however, see in the service of the community their highest life problem.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.

He who limps is still walking.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

I've had great success being a total idiot.

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

Even a paranoid has some real enemies.