Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Stephen Samuel Wise

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American priest Stephen Samuel Wise.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Stephen Samuel Wise was an early 20th-century American Reform rabbi and Zionist leader in the Progressive Era. Born in Budapest, he was an infant when his family immigrated to New York. He followed his father and grandfather in becoming a rabbi, serving in New York and in Portland, Oregon. Wise was also a founding member of the NAACP.

American - Priest | March 17, 1874 - April 19, 1949

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Vision looks inward and becomes duty.

Stephen Samuel Wise

Vision looks upward and becomes faith.

Stephen Samuel Wise

Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.

Stephen Samuel Wise

It is the Jew who lies when he swears allegiance to another faith; who becomes a danger to the world.

Stephen Samuel Wise

Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.

Stephen Samuel Wise

An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen, but greatens, his life.

Stephen Samuel Wise

That which is to be most desired in America is oneness and not sameness. Sameness is the worst thing that could happen to the people of this country. To make all people the same would lower their quality, but oneness would raise it.

Stephen Samuel Wise

"I am not an American of JEWISH faith. I am a JEW. I have been a JEW for a thousand years. Hitler was right in one thing. He calls the Jewish people a race, and we are a race."

Stephen Samuel Wise

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Stephen Samuel Wise

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