The Jewish Wisdom Database

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.

There are times when an individual feels he should do those things which only can and should be done by the many. There is room for only one Prime Minister, but for those who make the desert bloom there is room for hundreds, thousands and even millions.

Thought is a strenuous art -- few practice it, and then only at rare times.

It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it -- all the associations which a different word has.

Those who submerge themselves in the desire for money are always in debt.

The first focus in life here on earth is to be at peace with all men.

God is present whenever a peace treaty is signed.

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

Strength is not the absence of weakness but how we wrestle with our weaknesses.

What grows never grows old.

To transmit wisdom to the unworthy is lilke throwing pearls before swine.

Where there's music, pour not out talk.

As a seal of carnelian on a necklace of gold is a concert of music at a banquet of wine.

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.

The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.

The state of Israel represents and speaks only on behalf of its own citizens, and in no way presumes to represent or speak in the name of the Jews who are citizens of any other country.

Let a stranger live with you, and he'll estrange your way of life.

Dreams lift up fools.