Solomon Ibn Gabirol

“None can be saved from error who will not be persuaded to leave it.”

“How can a man be satisfied with himself when he knows that the more he learns, the more he has to learn?”

“The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.”

“He who seeks for pearls must dive below.”

“The test of a good friend is that he will bear with a friend in his misfortune.”

“At the head of all virtues is humility.”

“Let thy words be few, and thy deeds be many.”

“Knowledge is the life of the soul.”

“A man's disposition is according to the manner of his companions.”

“What is man? A miserable being, a transient guest, a passing shadow, a fading flower, a fleeting breath.”

“As the sun is to the eye, so is the Lord to the soul.”

“The lover of learning is a logician; the hater of learning is a sophist.”

“A wise man's soul is a garden of paradise.”

“From the very beginning of my childhood I have been a weaver of songs.”

“Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.”