"Who has no faith would be better off unborn." ~~ Bachya
"Without understanding there is no knowledge, and without knowledge no understanding." ~~ Avot 3:17
"The world is in the hands of fools." ~~ Talmud, Sanhedrin 46b
"The wicked are like the tossing sea, for it cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, says God, for the wicked." ~~ Isaiah (Yesha’yahu) 57:20,21
"A man is only as good as what he loves. " ~~ Saul Bellow
"Poverty can do a great deal and so can exile – – – so make allowances for the Jew when judging him. " ~~ Chaim Nachman Bialik
"In your town, your reputation counts; in another, your clothes do." ~~ Talmud, Shabbat
"Just as a man does not blush to ask his friend to give him water, so he should not be ashamed to ask a younger man to teach him Torah." ~~ Tanchuma
"Benedictions are of no avail if peace is not with them. " ~~ Numbers (Bamidbar) R.
"One must not say to a man who has repented (and changed his way of life,) “Remember your former transgressions.” " ~~ Talmud, Bava Metzia 58b
"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. " ~~ Henry Kissinger
"Man gains wealth by wisdom and forfeits it by folly." ~~ N. Amram
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