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Subject: Jewish Words of Wisdom
               Jewish Proverbs, Most Direct Quotes

If the rich could hire other people to die for them,

the poor could make a wonderful living.
Yiddish Proverb

◆The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says
more than the fool when he speaks.
Yiddish Proverb

What you don't see with your eyes,

don't invent with your mouth.
Yiddish proverb
 
◆A hero is someone who can keep his mouth shut

when he is right.
Yiddish Proverb

One old friend is better than two new ones.
Yiddish Proverb

◆One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who
wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be

the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.
Jewish Proverb

A wise man hears one word and understands two. 
Yiddish Proverb
 
◆"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
 
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
Golda Meir
 
◆Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex.

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance
you must keep moving.

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. 
Albert Einstein

You can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails.
Yiddish proverb

I don't want to become immortal through my work.

I want to become immortal through not dying.          

 Woody Allen

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton

 

◆We can't solve problems by using the same kind

of thinking we used when we created them.  
Albert Einstein