The Jewish Wisdom Database

Judge every man charitably.

To arbitrate is to temper justice with charity.

Knowledge that is paid for will be longer remembered.

When a man is able to take abuse with a smile, he is worthy to become a leader.

Do not say: I will learn when I will have leisure; you may never have it.

Move to a place where there is learning; you can't expect learning to move to you.

Heaven is wonderful, but getting there is most of the fun.

Where there are no men, try to be a man.

We must always hold the reins of the animal within us.

Condemn no man and consider nothing impossible, for there is no man who does not have his hour.

A modest woman has good children.

To learn from the young is to eat unripe fruit and drink new wine; to learn from the old is to eat ripe fruit and drink old wine.

The prosperity of a country can be seen simply in how it treats its old people.

When the going seems rough, look at the jewels you're carrying.

The man who disobeys his parents will have disobedient sons.

A giant feels the sting of a bee.

Prayers truly from the heart open all the doors in Heaven.

The greater a man's wisdom the more will he avoid quarrels.

There are four types [of students]: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer, and the sifter: The sponge soaks up everything; the funnel takes in at one ear but lets out at the other; the strainer lets pass the wine and retains the lees; and the sifter holds back the coarse flour and collects the fine.

An undeserved title brings more shame than honor.

I grew up among wise men and learned that nothing is better than silence.

Silence protects wisdom.

Don't crave to sit at the table of a king; your own table is better---and so is your crown.

The sons of sages are not always sages---so that no one can think Torah is inherited, and so that the sages' sons do not hold themselves superior to others.

God forgets the man who stubbornly rejects proof that he is wrong.