Bernard Malamud Quotes

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

When people ask me about what I learned from martial arts, I don't talk about favorite punches or kicks, or about fights won or lost. I talk about learning self-discipline, about ethics and manners and benevolence and fairness.

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.

It is of no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.

I say that justice is truth in action.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Justice is truth in action.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

There is no sin but ignorance.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Character is long-standing habit.

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.

Justice is the truth in action.

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.