Wisdom Quotes Quotes

A tree fears an axe even though its handle is made from it.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

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

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Clear skies do not promise rain.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A rose’s beautiful scent is extracted only when it is crushed.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

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

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Gathering eggs is commonsense, waiting for them to hatch is wisdom.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Money is the most beautiful woman in the world;even when old and wrinkled, men are head-over-heals in love with her.

~ Matshona Dhiliwayo

I owe most of my wisdom to the problems I was gifted.

~ Wordions

It is incredible how many hurts can be healed by the two words, 'I'm sorry.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't poison a river whose fish you might need tomorrow.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The lowest wisdom of the wise is greater than the highest wisdom of fools.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you push your luck too hard, fortune's muscles might tear.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't cry over spilt milk when you can milk another cow.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Education costs an arm and a leg, but ignorance costs you your mind and your soul.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A curator treasures aged bibles, but the wise treasure the wisdom within.

~ Christian Hunt

Watering a dead flower will not bring it back to life.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Follow your heart only if it has your mind's feet.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When a wolf is hungry it befriends sheep.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Light cannot enter a dark room without illumining it.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you feed a bird, you don't have to force it to come to you.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A thorn is a rose's friend but a gardener’s enemy.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You don't throw a compass overboard because the ocean is calm.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Be kind to all living things. Nature notices everything.

~ Eileen Anglin

Walking towards love is wiser than falling into it.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

An angel who makes you cry is better than a devil who makes you smile.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The most beautiful birds do not know how beautiful they are until they see their reflection in water.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

As you awaken to the new day, put your hands to your heart, breath in and say: I am loved. I am love. I love, I love, I love.

~ Eileen Anglin

God works through angels, people, nature and animals.

~ Eileen Anglin

Honey from the devil's fingers tastes bitter.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A ship that sails without a compass will get lost at sea.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Paying the high cost of education is better than paying the high price of ignorance.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Sometimes in life, you may take a step, only to realize the steps you missed. Sometimes in life, you may delay a step taking, only to see a step you shouldn’t have miss. Notwithstanding the results of your steps, you still ought to take steps. Life keeps moving and you can’t afford to be static! Keep on moving on!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If the body dies, life ends! If the body is disturbed, life is disturbed. If the mind is not sound, everything least sound well to the mind! Mind your body; mind your mind!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A thinker builds his castle of thoughts inside a garden of roses and it loses its relevance among the roses. He builds it along the shore and it’s trampled by the fury of waves eventually. He builds it on a cliff high enough and it becomes impregnable but out of reach. Such is the fate of that castle

~ Ashutosh Gupta

A large vessel will never fill up no matter how small the leak is.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When you start to question you are part of the problem.

~ Bert Mccoy

if you expose the wrong then also preserve the right.you are d salt of d earth

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Don't trust a mirror that only tells you how wonderful you look.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Be wiser than most, be a child in your heart, be a sage in your mind and a mage with your hands. Feel hearts beating, hear the flapping of birds' wings. Heal the broken, embrace the vulnerable. Speak to the living trees. Be pulled down by no one, and by nothing. This is how to be a Goddess.

~ C. Joybell C.