Top 41 Hillel's Quotes
#1. As you would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise," or Rabbi Hillel's statement, "What is hateful to you do not do to your neighbor; that is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary thereof.
Paul Bloom
#2. That which is hateful to you, do not do to another. That is the whole Law. The rest is commentary. Now go and learn.
Rabbi Hillel
#3. Indifference to one's own faith is no proof of tolerance. Loyalty to one's own is part of a larger loyalty to faith generally.
Abba Hillel Silver
#4. The more flesh, the more worms; the more possessions, the more worry.
Hillel The Elder
#5. A single candle can light a thousand more without diminishing itself.
Hillel The Elder
#6. If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?
Rabbi Hillel
#7. 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
#8. Electing Sudan to the U.N. body mandated to promote and protect human rights worldwide is like putting Jack the Ripper in charge of a women's shelter.
Hillel Neuer
#9. I didn't want to die, ever. I wanted to watch a million suns set, love a million women, walk down a million city streets and lonely roads. A thousand lifetimes wouldn't be enough for that. Sometimes, convinced I had come down with some fatal illness, I was afraid I wouldn't even have one.
Hillel Halkin
#11. Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling.
Hillel F. Damron
#13. Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.
Hillel The Elder
#14. When the great theologian and philosopher Rabbi Hillel was challenged to explain the Torah in the time he could stand on one foot, he replied, Do not do unto others that which is repugnant to you. All else is commentary.
Edward O. Wilson
#15. Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.
Rabbi Hillel
#16. We state it with a pure heart and full confidence that no Jew has ever thought and is not thinking now in any way whatsoever of impinging on Muslim rights and their holy places.
Hillel Cohen
#18. When Hillel died, it was during one of the happiest times of my life. I was married and completely in love and had a baby on the way.
Flea
#19. 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
#20. In a place where there are no humans, one must strive to be human.
Hillel The Elder
#21. Nor was Jabotinsky enticed by the idea of Arab resettlement. People might call him an extremist, he said, but at least he had never dreamed of asking Arabs in a Jewish state to emigrate.
Hillel Halkin
#22. I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing.
Daniel Hillel
#23. The challenge of the writer is to transform - artistically and imaginatively - a unique personal experience into a universal, meaningful story.
Hillel F. Damron
#24. A name made great is a name destroyed. He who does not increase his knowledge decreases it.
Hillel The Elder
#25. Take care of yourself - you never know when the world will need you.
Hillel The Elder
#26. Making Saudi Arabia a world judge on women's rights and religious freedom would be like naming a pyromaniac as the town fire chief.
Hillel Neuer
#27. Weigh the reward of the mitzva against the pleasure of the sin, and also weigh the pleasure of the sin against the punishment it will inevitably bring. Are we getting a good deal by opting for sin? Clearly, we are not.
Yaakov Hillel
#28. Say not: "When I have free time I shall study", for you may perhaps never have any free time
Hillel The Elder
#29. The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach.
Hillel The Elder
#30. In the U.S. and Canada, 50% of the young leadership of all the organizations like AIPAC and Hillel are Birthright alumni.
Charles Bronfman
#32. Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, and we became really close. We had a band, and we didn't like the bass player, so I started playing bass, and I got a bass two weeks later.
Flea
#33. Usability is the baseline. Your values, aspirations, and dreams are what fills the space above.
Hillel Cooperman
#34. He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.
Rabbi Hillel
#35. 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
#40. 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
#41. For the curse of Cain, the curse of being an outcast and a wanderer over the face of the earth has been removed ...
Abba Hillel Silver
