Maimonides Quotes on Truth
Moses ben Maimon, known to the Latin West as Maimonides and to Jewish tradition by the acronym Rambam, was a medieval Sephardic Jewish philosopher, physician, and Torah scholar of the 12th century. This page collects quotes attributed to Maimonides on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Maimonides:
“Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.”
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Attributed to Maimonides:
“Astrology is a disease, not a science.”
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“[…] one should accept the truth from whatever source it proceeds.”
Foreword to The Eight Chapters Of Maimonides On Ethics , translated by Joseph I. Gorfinkle, Ph.D. Columbia University Press, New York (1912). Page 35-36 . | Variant: "Accept the truth from whatever source it comes." Introduction to the Shemonah Peraqim , as quoted in Truth and Compassion: Essays on Judaism and Religion in Memory of Rabbi Dr. Solomon Frank (1983) Edited by Howard Joseph, Jack Natha -
“Variant: "Accept the truth from whatever source it comes." Introduction to the Shemonah Peraqim , as quoted in Truth and Compassion: Essays on Judaism and Religion in Memory of Rabbi Dr. Solomon Frank (1983) Edited by Howard Joseph, Jack Nathan Lightstone, and Michael D. Oppenheim, p. 168”
[…] one should accept the truth from whatever source it proceeds. -
“Variant: You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.”
[…] one should accept the truth from whatever source it proceeds.