All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.
More Quotes by Maimonides
One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.