{"id":600917,"date":"2024-02-22T13:13:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T18:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/22\/maimonides-quotes\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T13:24:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T18:24:25","slug":"maimonides-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/22\/maimonides-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Maimonides quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It is forbidden to dwell in the vicinity of any of those with an evil tongue, and all the more to sit with them and listen to their words.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Chapter 7, Section 6, pp. 51-52<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><small>as translated by Eliyahu Touger&nbsp;<a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chabad.org\/library\/article_cdo\/aid\/910340\/jewish\/Deot-Chapter-One.htm\">Full text online<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Silence is a fence around wisdom <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>There is one [disease] which is widespread, and from which men rarely escape. This disease varies in degree in different men \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I refer to this: that&nbsp;<strong>every person thinks his mind \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 more clever and more learned than it is<\/strong>&nbsp;\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I have found that this disease has attacked many an intelligent person \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 They \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 express themselves [not only] upon the science with which they are familiar, but upon other sciences about which they know nothing \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6&nbsp;<strong>If met with applause \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 so does the disease itself become aggravated.<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Aphorisms<\/em>. Quoted in&nbsp;<em>Bulletin of the History of Medicine<\/em>, Vol. 3 (1935), p. 555<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Chambers Dictionary of Quotations<\/em>(1997), p. 640<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maimonides, also known as Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, was a preeminent medieval Jewish philosopher, astronomer, and one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages. His works in Jewish law, ethics, and philosophy have left a lasting impact. Here are some notable quotes attributed to Maimonides:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>On Wisdom and Understanding:<\/strong> &#8220;Teach thy tongue to say, &#8216;I do not know,&#8217; and thou shalt progress.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>On Compassion:<\/strong> &#8220;The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>On Health and Well-being:<\/strong> &#8220;No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>On Giving:<\/strong> &#8220;Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>On Character:<\/strong> &#8220;The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>On Knowledge:<\/strong> &#8220;Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>On Ethics and Morality:<\/strong> &#8220;You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>On Humility:<\/strong> &#8220;The wise man&#8217;s eyes are in his head; but the fool walks in darkness.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These quotes reflect Maimonides&#8217; broad intellectual pursuits, from ethics and law to medicine and philosophy. His work continues to influence not only Jewish thought but also the fields of ethics, philosophy, and medicine globally.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>as translated by Eliyahu Touger&nbsp;Full text online Silence is a fence around wisdom It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600917"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600924,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600917\/revisions\/600924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}