Hunger is a lesser evil than ignorance.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You are no greater than the knowledge you acquire, the desires you harbor, and the experiences you cherish.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn from the ocean; not fearing turbulence, it uses the wind against it to rise instead.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn more. Love more. Laugh more. Live more.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn, because life is ahead of you. Live, because death is before you. Listen, because wisdom is all around you. Love, because God is inside of you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn from the sun; it is warm to everyone, and is therefore never in short supply of those who adore it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Esteem intelligence, cherish knowledge, and value understanding, but trust wisdom.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Be humble as you learn, confident as you teach, and modest when you have mastered both.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Your first teacher is your mother, the second is people, the third is life, and the fourth is God.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Be wise enough to learn from the past, shrewd enough to capitalize on the present, and clever enough to prepare for the future.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Knowledge is the eldest daughter of wisdom.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn from acquaintances, and you are clever; from friends, and you are intelligent; from enemies, and you are shrewd; but learn from all, and you are wise.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn from a river; obstacles may force it to change its course, but never its destination.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn more than others. Work more than others. Succeed more than others. Give more than others.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Knowledge gives you the world, intelligence gives you the sky, understanding gives you the stars, but wisdom gives you the universe.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A lion is born knowing how to hunt, but has to learn how to hunt well.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
In my youth I had three teachers: friends, enemies, and books. In my adulthood I had three professors: God, nature, and life.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Knowledge is the path, understanding is the way, wisdom is the highway, and enlightenment is the destination.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The most difficult door to open is the entrance to an ignorant mind.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Books are a stairway to knowledge, experience is a highway to understanding, together they are an elevator to enlightenment.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The ignorant learn from none, the simple learn from some, the intelligent learn from many, but the enlightened learn from all.
~ 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
Learn from the ocean; when it rises, it carries more than itself along with it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn like an amateur. Train like a champion. Fight like a warrior. Triumph like a conqueror.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is a thorough university, pain and hardship are its distinguished professors.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn what you can, teach what you know, live how you ought.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
There is no smarter professor than life, and no wiser sage than experience.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
To be knowledgeable, sit before scholars; to be wise, sit before life.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird is born knowing how to fly, but has to learn to conquer the skies.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn from seeds to rise, no matter how much dirt is thrown at you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn from stars; when dark times try to dull your sparkle, shine.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Some birds learn how to fly only after falling off of a cliff.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo