The Jewish Wisdom Database

Be not slow to visit the sick!

Keep silent or speak wisely!

There is a silence whose sound travels from one end of the world to the other.

Keep sin at a distance and it will turn aside from you!

Flee from a sin as from a snake, for if you draw nigh it will bite you!

Every sin is like a double-edged sword, and there is no cure against its wound.

Jewish law knows no incurable sin.

Rather a slip of the foot than a slip of the tongue.

Not all souls are alike.

Wisdom is known by utterance and intelligence by the answer of the tongue.

Gentle speech multiplies friends.

Accustom not your lips to use obscene speech!

Man was given two ears and one tongue, so that he may listen more than speak.

If you throw up a stone, it will fall back on your head.

If you do not suffer the toil of study, you will suffer the toil of ignorance.

Who keeps on knocking will succeed.

The sun needs no candle.

It is worth a man's while to remove suspicion far from him, even it he is known to be faithful and just.

All swindlers hate and besmirch each other.

Just as the mirror should be more polished than the gazer, so should the teacher be more brilliant than the pupil.

When you come to serve God, prepare your soul against temptation.

Time is the most sublime and wisest teacher.

There is no better physician for any sickness than time.

Honor and shame are in the power of the tongue.

The first man knew it not perfectly, neither will the last search it thoroughly; for its understanding is wider than the sea and its counsel deeper than the abyss. [Torah]