Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Stephen Samuel Wise (American Jewish Rabbi)

Stephen Samuel Wise (1874–1949) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American Reform rabbi and Zionist leader. Wise was born in Budapest in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the son and grandson of rabbis. His grandfather, Joseph Hirsch Weisz, was Chief Rabbi of a small town near Budapest. His father, Aaron Wise, earned a Ph.D. and ordination in Europe, and emigrated to the United States to serve as rabbi of Congregation Baith Israel Anshei Emes in Brooklyn, New York. Wise’s maternal grandfather, Móric Farkasházi Fischer, created the Herend Porcelain Company. When Wise’s father Aaron Wise sought to unionize the company, Moric gave the family one-way tickets to New York.

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Vision looks inward and becomes duty.
Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.
Vision looks upward and becomes faith.
Stephen Samuel Wise
Topics: Vision, Aspirations

Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.
Stephen Samuel Wise
Topics: Vision

It is the superstition of medicine that is responsible for all the health cults of modern times. You have elevated the desire for health, youth and longevity to the position of a religion.
Stephen Samuel Wise
Topics: Health

An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen, but greatens, his life.
Stephen Samuel Wise
Topics: Service

I would rather think of my religion as a gamble than to think of it as an insurance premium.
Stephen Samuel Wise
Topics: Religion

Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.
Stephen Samuel Wise
Topics: One liners, Aspirations

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