Echoes

Learning never exhausts the mind.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Every Israelite has a duty to study whether he is poor or rich, whether healthy or suffering, whether young or very old and in failing strength, even if he is poor and supported by charity or begs from door to door.

I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.

Virtue is the root; wealth is the result.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

There is no reason why poverty should call us away from philosophy—no, nor even actual want. For when hastening after wisdom, we must endure even hunger. Men have endured hunger when their towns were besieged, and what other reward for their endurance did they obtain than that they did not fall under the conqueror’s power? How much greater is the promise of the prize of everlasting liberty, and the assurance that we need fear neither God nor man! Even though we starve, we must reach that goal.

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement and success have no meaning.

That is not riches, which may be lost; virtue is our true good and the true reward of its possessor. That cannot be lost; that never deserts us, but when life leaves us. As to property and external riches, hold them with trembling; they often leave their possessor in contempt, and mocked at for having lost them.

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

The man who dies rich dies disgraced.

Faith is the best wealth for a man in this world. Righteousness when well practised brings happiness. Truth is the sweetest of flavours. They say the life of one living by wisdom is the best.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth.

The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.