Wisdom Quotations Quotes

A beautiful gift does not decrease in value because it is wrapped in ugly paper.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If the sun needed friends to shine, it would not rule the sky alone.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Traveler! If you keep wandering in the path of wisdom you too eventually become a man of wisdom!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened.

Matshona Dhliwayo

To achieve peace let go of: guilt, anger, and bitterness. To achieve happiness embrace: virtue, faith, and love.

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Lips may lie, but the heart always tells the truth.

Matshona Dhliwayo

What is wisdom? It is the result of multiple paradigms brought to their intellectual furthest reaches and balanced and merged together. The fundamentalist, the person who only sees life through a single lens, can never hope for wisdom.

Light cannot hide its beauty, not even in darkness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Forgive those who hurt you yesterday.Reward those who help you today.Remember those who help you tomorrow.

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Yesterday, I was clever, I wanted to be rich. Today, I am wise, I want to be happy.

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Honey from the devil's fingers tastes bitter.

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An army of disciplined sheep is greater than an army of undisciplined wolves.

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Knowledge is strength, understanding is mastery, and wisdom is power.

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A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.

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Only fools are born wise.

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If you place two flowers in the same vase, they will not argue over who is more beautiful.

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The ugliest storms paint the loveliest rainbows.

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A wolf's thoughts are seldom far from its appetite.

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Don't burn your bridges until you build better ones.

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One good friend is better than a thousand acquaintances.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If roses did not suffer thorns on their journey to beauty, they would lose out on becoming masterpieces.

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Let them judge you, but remain virtuous.Let them criticize you, but remain wise.Let them misunderstand you, but remain kind. Let them hate you, but remain exceptional.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A rainbow earns its colors in the storm.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Wisdom at the mountain-foot sees farther than intelligence at the mountaintop.

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When sheep grow blind, it is only wolves that rejoice.

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A rose does not lose sleep because it was mocked by weeds.

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If you want to know how good a tree is, examine how many birds flock to feed off of its fruit.

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Hold on to anything you find that's good and workable for you. Drop anything negative where you find it.

Time is your acquaintance, life is your friend, death is your enemy, and existence is your soulmate.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Your clock cannot buy you more time, your bed cannot get you more sleep, your titles cannot acquire you more influence, your fame cannot gain you more honor, and your money cannot earn you more happiness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is foolish for the moon to compete with the sun for the spotlight.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Train the ears to hear more, the eyes to see more, the hands to do more, the feet to accomplish more, the mind to think more, the heart to feel more, and the soul to love more.

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Life may be a bed of roses, but roses still have thorns.

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If a fly lands on your food, do not use a hammer to remove it.

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It is in the shade that you look up at a tree and appreciate its efforts.

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If the sun shone for itself, it would be blinded by its own light; if a river flowed for itself, it would be drowned by its own weight.

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Faith moves mountains, intelligence goes over them, wisdom goes around them, but love levels them.

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An archer must never blame a target for missing it.

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Brave cubs become fierce lions.

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Be like water; soft as it is, it breaks through rocks and impenetrable surfaces.

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Noble leaders choose: wisdom over wealth, knowledge over fame, understanding over honor, virtue over titles, and people over power.

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The farther you venture into the forest the more valuable the fruit.

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Learn more. Love more. Laugh more. Live more.

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Spring is proof that there is beauty in new beginnings.

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One who throws stones at others has less to use to build his own house.

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If you waste time watering a fruitless tree, fruitful ones may die of thirst.

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A flower takes a while to grow, but can die in an instant; this is how it is with trust.

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You can curse the sun a thousand times, but cannot keep it from shining, even for a day.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Follow the river to reach the sea; follow the sea to reach the ocean. And finally follow the ocean to reach the wisdom! As long as you target beyond of the beyond, you will reach the very beyond!

Mehmet Murat ildan

If there is wisdom in your mind, prove it; joy in your heart, share it; love in your soul, show it; good in your life, impart it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The mind shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s wisdom; the heart, in proportion to one’s courage; and the soul, in proportion to one’s love.

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Love in fools is better than hate in the wise.

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One who never reads only goes where his feet can take him, but one who does, travels around the world.

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A bird will only eat from a hand it trusts.

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When hunting a lion it is wise to remind yourself that you too are being hunted.

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Walking towards love is wiser than falling into it.

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Fortune hides behind action.

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A wound won't heal if you keep touching it.

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A bear does not change its nature because it shed its fur.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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