The Jewish Wisdom Database

Who is a thief? Not the one who knows how to steal, but the one who steals. Who is a learner? Not the one who knows how to learn, but the one who learns.

Even the mundane talk of scholars needs study.

I became wiser from every teacher.

Find yourself a teacher and get you a fellow-student!

Revere your teacher as you would heaven.

As you teach, you learn.

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

Who is without wife should not teach children.

No pupil will attend to his lessons property unless he respects his teacher.

Happy the teacher whose puppil thanks him.

Time is the most sublime and wisest teacher.

No learning, no manners; no manners, no learning; no lore, no loaf.

A man is lucky if his wife, his studies and his livelihood all come from his own town.

When you sit before the wise, let it be your wish to listen rather than lecture!

The desire of the wise is to learn, and of fools to teach.

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.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

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

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

Education that is merely concerned with the transmission of information is doomed to failure. It must serve the greater and more noble purpose of cultivating the student's moral character.

G-d enabled the Jewish people to live as sovereigns in the Holy land, the place of our forefathers - the land promised to the Jews by G-d. This reality places a special burden and privilege upon Israel's citizens and its government, to preserve the Jewish integrity of the country. Its educational system must be founded and inspired by Jewish values and the Jewish tradition so that its citizens grow to be proud keepers of their Jewish heritage.

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

People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes?

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.