Q0216

Maimonides

A verified English rendering from the curated archive.

English

Accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
Thinker Maimonides
School Jewish Rationalism
Source Shemonah Perakim, Preface
Theme Truth
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Source context

This English passage is associated with Shemonah Perakim, Preface, within the tradition of Jewish Rationalism. The wording below is a verified rendering prepared for careful reading rather than a claim of unique translation authority.

A short reading

Read in the register of truth, the sentence asks the reader to test an assumption rather than to collect a slogan. In Maimonides's wider work, similar claims are usually offered as prompts for judgment: what would have to be true for the sentence to hold, and what would follow if it did?

How to cite this quotation

APA: Maimonides. (n.d.). Accept the truth from whatever source it comes. In Philosophy Blind Box. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0216

MLA: Maimonides. “Accept the truth from whatever source it comes..” Philosophy Blind Box, https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0216.

Chicago: Maimonides. “Accept the truth from whatever source it comes..” Philosophy Blind Box. Accessed 2026. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0216.

Same theme

More on truth

  1. Once in a lifetime, everything must be doubted.
  2. The things we conceive very clearly and very distinctly are all true.
  3. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events.
  4. The true is precisely what is made.
  5. Do not go outside; return into yourself. Truth dwells in the inner man.

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