When I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a…

When I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing then thousand fools-I prefer to address myself to the man.

Maimonides

The Guide for the Perplexed · 1190

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Intellectual integrity

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Religious literature

Time

1190 Middle Ages

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Maimonides

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Maimonides. The Guide of the Perplexed, translated by Chaim Rabin. Hackett Publishing Company, 1995.

Original citation

Maimonides. דלאלת אלחאירין [The Guide of the Perplexed]. c. 1190.

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