"Where there is no knowledge there can be no insight, and where there is no insight there can be no knowledge." ~~ Sayings of the Fathers 3:2
"Good men are hard to provoke and easy to calm." ~~ Sayings of the Fathers, 4:21
"Judge every man charitably." ~~ Sayings of the Fathers, 1:6
"He who honors the Torah is honored by mankind." ~~ Sayings of the Fathers 4:6
"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." ~~ Sayings of the Fathers 5:15
"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." ~~ (based on) Sayings of the Fathers 4:28
"It is wise to work as well as study Torah; between the two, you will forget to sin." ~~ Sayings of the Fathers 2:2
"Pray for political stability, for if not for fear of the government men would swallow each other alive." ~~ Sayings of the Fathers, 3:1
"Condemn no man and consider nothing impossible, for there is no man who does not have his hour." ~~ Sayings of the Fathers 4:6
"When two men sit together and fail to discuss Torah—lo! there is the seat of the scornful. But when two men do discuss Torah, the Holy Spirit rests on them." ~~ Sayings of the Fathers 3:2
"He who fulfills the Torah amidst his poverty will in the end fulfill it amidst wealth; he who neglects the Torah amidst wealth will in the end neglect it amidst poverty." ~~ Sayings of the Fathers 4:9
"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." ~~ (adapted from) Sayings of the Fathers 2:12