Talmud Quotes
31 quotes by 23 authors
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
— Francis Bacon
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde.…
— Francis Bacon
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Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks idealism in any…
— Adolf Hitler
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I never turn down a drink. Among friends it’s always appropriate. A man is only a man as they say, but brandy is still brandy.…
— Sholom Aleichem
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If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely…
— Abraham Cahan
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The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud,…
— Elie Wiesel
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The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we are orthodox, conservative,…
— Herman Wouk
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In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.
— Norman Lamm
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The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud: "Love peace and pursue it at any cost." ... "Remember it is better to…
— Frederic Farrar
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If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.
— Abraham Cahan
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One of the sages of the Talmud taught nearly 200 years ago that God could have created a plant that would grow loaves of bread.…
— Harold S. Kushner
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When I began to talk publicly about the hatred that was in the Talmud, I was branded a hater, a bigot, and an anti-Semite by…
— David Duke
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It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals.
— Julius Streicher
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The Talmud: Heart's Blood of the Jewish Faith...
— Herman Wouk
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The Jewish conception of the Jews as the Chosen People who must eventually rule the world forms indeed the basis of Rabbinical Judaism... The Jewish…
— Nesta Helen Webster
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My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me…
— Norman Lamm
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I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of…
— Peter Eisenman
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[It is hard to know what is good luck and what isn't and therefore whether we should be happy or sad about it. Only time…
— Zelig Pliskin
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My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.
— Elie Wiesel
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It's the side-by-side culture of the Talmud I like so much. 'On the one hand' and 'on the other hand' is frustrating for people seeking…
— Jonathan Rosen
Who Wrote These Talmud Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 31 Talmud Quotes as follows: