Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg quotes

Better make friends with an ignoramus who is liberal with his money and of a pleasing disposition than with a scholar who is mean and irascible.
-- Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg

#Mean #Disposition #Scholar

Do not be ungrateful to animals.
-- Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg

#Animal #Ungrateful

Do not enter into a learned discussion with your guests unless you are assured of their ability, so as not to put them to shame.
-- Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg

#Guests #Shame #Ability

A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.

Television in the 1960s & 70s had just as much dross and the programmes were a lot more tediously patronising than they are now. Memory truncates occasional gems into a glittering skein of brilliance. More television, more channels means more good television and, of course, more bad. The same equation applies to publishing, film and, I expect, sumo wrestling.

Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.

You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.

A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition.

You can't let your personal disposition be dictated by the world around you.

Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.

A scholar has to know a little of everything.

A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.

I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.