Maimonides — "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed h…"

"Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the entire world disagrees with it."

"One should not consider as a defect the fact that the Torah provides for the well-being of the body, as it provides for the well-being of the soul."

"The greatest good that can befall man is to be free from all desires, and to be engaged in the acquisition of knowledge."

"The human intellect is the most perfect of all created things."

"It is a fundamental principle of our religion that a prophet may not add or subtract from a commandment, whether in the Written Torah or in the Oral Torah."