Long Quote by Louis Finkelstein Download Open image “Wisdom begins with sacrifice of immediate pleasures for long-range purposes.” — Louis Finkelstein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Long Pleasure Purpose Range Sacrifice Wisdom
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us. — Josef Skvorecky Copy Share
Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience. — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves. — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Wisdom consists in doing the next thing that you have to do, doing it with your whole heart and finding delight in it —… — Helen M. Luke Copy Share Image
The Talmud derives its authority from the position held by the ancient (Pharisee) academies. The teachers of those academies, both of Babylonia and of Palestine, were considered the rightful successors of the older Sanhedrin...At the present time, the Jewish people have no living central authority comparable in status to the ancient Sanhedrins or the later academies. Therefore, any decision regarding… — Louis Finkelstein Copy Share
Pharisaism became Talmudism...But the spirit of the Ancient Pharisee survives unaltered. When the Jew...studies the Talmud, he is actually repeating the arguments used in the Palestinian academies. From Palestine to Babylonia; from Babylonia to North Africa, Italy, Spain, France and Germany; from these to Poland, Russia and eastern Europe generally, ancient Pharisaism has wandered. — Louis Finkelstein Copy Share
The road to success, and by that I mean... the possibility of giving the best one has to the cause that one loves most,… — Louis Finkelstein Copy Share Image
It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and… — Louis Finkelstein Copy Share Image
From the long range point of view, I do not know of anything we can do more important than to make some contribution to… — Louis Finkelstein Copy Share Image
For as Jews, the problem happens to be more urgent and vital than for others; because the destruction of religion on America will involve… — Louis Finkelstein Copy Share Image
It therefore become essential for the future of Judaism itself that its advancement should be correlated with a similar effort to advance the cause… — Louis Finkelstein Copy Share Image
A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful. — Louis Finkelstein Copy Share Image
We realize that Judaism as a faith can survive only in an atmosphere of general faith. — Louis Finkelstein Copy Share Image
I hope to devote all of my spare time, which ordinarily would go to research, my summers, and every ounce of strength I can… — Louis Finkelstein Copy Share Image
In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration… — Louis Finkelstein Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly that it is vital for us to constantly keep in mind the fact that the Jewish problem is but a… — Louis Finkelstein Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return. — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Contradictory precepts that have guided me for as long as I can remember: 1: I will live forever. 2: I will die tomorrow. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated. — Naomi Klein Copy Share
The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls and old gay men together - there's a safety. They make a shield from all of the bad things they've experienced in the world. They make a home together. There are no songs about that. I… — Margaret Cho Copy Share
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any benefits. And yet, he's thinking… — Pico Iyer Copy Share
I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, confidential sources had alerted me to longstanding misuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system and the erosion… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the… — Angela Merkel Copy Share
