Top 31 Hillel The Elder Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Hillel The Elder

#1. Summary of the Torah, whilst standing on one leg: What is offensive when done to you, do not do it to your neighbor. The rest is commentary, now go and study (it).

Hillel The Elder- First-century Jewish Scholar

#2. In a place where there are no humans, one must strive to be human.

Hillel The Elder

#3. Be of the disciples of Aaron, loving peace and pursuing peace, loving your fellow creatures and drawing them near to the Law.

Hillel The Elder

#4. I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to.

Jeremy London

#5. If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

Hillel The Elder

#6. Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.

Hillel The Elder

#7. Al Gore has endorsed Howard Dean for president. That's pretty fitting, the guy that didn't beat Bush endorsing the guy who won't beat Bush.

David Letterman

#8. When left unsatisfied, lust becomes violence.

Jake Vander Ark

#9. Gay men greet each other just like straight guys do ... If one of the straight guys saved the other one's life.

Dov Davidoff

#10. Moreover he saw a skull floating on the surface of the water and he said unto it: Because you drowned others they drowned you; and those that drowned you will eventually be drowned.

Hillel The Elder

#11. It's every teenager's dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous.

Joey McIntyre

#12. It's just because you haven't practiced enough, Noah said generously, but he was gripping the door handle in a way that seemed redundant for the already dead.

Maggie Stiefvater

#13. The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker.

Arthur W. Pink

#14. The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.

Stephen Greenblatt

#15. A single candle can light a thousand more without diminishing itself.

Hillel The Elder

#16. The more flesh, the more worms; the more possessions, the more worry.

Hillel The Elder

#17. A name made great is a name destroyed. He who does not increase his knowledge decreases it.

Hillel The Elder

#18. What you yourself hate, don't do to your neighbor. This is the whole law; the rest is commentary. Go and study.

Hillel The Elder

#19. Electronic music is so weird because trends change so fast.

Chaz Bundick

#20. The heart, so small, yet, able to grow so large, sometimes always wants to take or give more than can be managed successfully. Thanks to the rational head, though, it's always there to save her from taking more than she can contain
. . . .
or so it thinks.

Ufuoma Apoki