The Jewish Wisdom Database

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

O Music! miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet, and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ, and uncounted nations sink down to pray.