The Jewish Wisdom Database

Tradition must be a spring-board into the future, not an arm-chair for repose.

Even the best translation cannot render fully the exact meaning of the text.

Who travels knows much.

There is no cure for those who know the truth but mean to reject it.

Profit not from the burning coals of the wicked, lest you be consumed in his fire!

Envy not a wicked man, for you know not what his end will be!

Show not yourself valiant in wine, for many has it undone!

Wine is as good as life to Man, if you drink it in its proper measure.

Much wine is a trap to the fool, it weakens you and provokes injurious bickering.

The yoke of wisdom is a yoke of gold.

Wisdom lifts up the poor man's head and sets him among princes.

The first virtue of wisdom is silence; the second hearing; the third memory; and the fourth action.

Who seeks wisdom by the right path will gain it.

The wise man will be silent till his time comes.

Who is wise? He who can learn from every man. Who is strong? He who can control his passions. Who is rich? He who is content with his lot. Whom do men honor? He who honors his fellow men.

Not everyone who is not a wolf must be a lamb.

I had rather dwell with a lion and a dragon than keep house with a wicked woman.

There is no greater hatred than a woman's. [Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.]

A woman may change the color of her hair, but not her character.

Who is the person that bares his nakedness here and it is beheld everywhere? The man that writes something and errs in writing it.

Lord Samuel once said: 'The Jews are like all other peoples, but with a certain plus'; the Zionists, too, in respect of the Land of Israel are like all Jews, but also plus something.

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.