Stand alone when it is to your benefit, with others when it is to your advantage, and with everyone when it is to your empowerment.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Water is soft, but can maneuver any obstacle; be shrewd, and be gentle, and you too will be able to do likewise.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment.
~ 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
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
An ounce of wisdom is worth more than a pound of knowledge.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A shrewd enemy will teach you more than a foolish friend.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The strong overcome their opponents, the mighty crush them, the shrewd outwit them, the cowardly hide from them, but the enlightened transcend them.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo