Hillel The Elder Quotes

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

Hillel The Elder

#2. Take care of yourself - you never know when the world will need you.

Hillel The Elder

#3. Say not: "When I have free time I shall study", for you may perhaps never have any free time

Hillel The Elder

#4. The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach.

Hillel The Elder

#5. Do not unto others that which is hateful unto thee.

Hillel The Elder

#6. I haven't had vast amounts of ministerial experience - in fact, none at all. But I do have a lot of experience of people.

Jeremy Corbyn

#7. Art needs no victory because it is already the victory of the meticulous mind!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. Golden Rule": "That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.

Hillel The Elder

#9. Who does not grow, declines.

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#10. Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place.

Hillel The Elder

#11. It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.

Eugene Wigner

#12. If not you, who? If not now, when?

Hillel The Elder

#13. 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

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

Chaz Bundick

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Hillel The Elder

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

Hillel The Elder

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

Stephen Greenblatt

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Joey McIntyre

#23. 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

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

Dov Davidoff

#25. When left unsatisfied, lust becomes violence.

Jake Vander Ark

#26. 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

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

Hillel The Elder

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

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

Jeremy London

#30. 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

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

Hillel The Elder