The Jewish Wisdom Database

Wisdom cries without, she utters her voice in the streets.

Happy the man that finds wisdom!

The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom!

Wisdom is better than jewels.

Be not wise in your own eyes!

The wise of heart will heed commandments.

Who walks with wise men becomes wise.

A rich man is wise in his own eyes.

Who once did a clever thing is not yet to be considered wise, and who once did a foolish thing not yet a fool.

Be not a witness against your neighbors without cause!

Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a God-fearing woman is to be praised.

Better to dwell in a corner on the roof, than with a quarrelsome woman in a great mansion.

A word fitly spoken is as apples of gold in a setting of silver.

Words should be weighed, not counted.

A young man has to live and an old man wants to.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.

Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.