Moshe ben Maimon

1135–1204 · Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain

Topics: learning

• It is the function of the intellect to discriminate between the true and the false—a distinction which is applicable to all objects of intellectual perception.

  — Moshe ben Maimon

• For a truth, once established by proof, does neither gain force nor certainty by the consent of all scholars, nor lose by the general dissent.

  — Moshe ben Maimon