Fall from ignorance, and you will rise to reason. ~Matshona Dhliwayo
1. Knowledge is the eldest daughter of wisdom.
2. Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper.
3. Esteem intelligence, cherish knowledge, and value understanding, but trust wisdom.
4. Knowledge is the path, understanding is the way, wisdom is the highway, and enlightenment is the destination.
5. Wisdom at the mountain-foot sees farther than intelligence at the mountaintop.
6. Nature hides its secrets in wisdom; the universe hides its secrets in love.
7. The truth is straight like a line. Virtue is firm like a wall. Wisdom is tall like a mountain. Love is wide like an ocean.
8. 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.
9. Virtue + Intelligence = Wisdom
10. Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened.
11. The enlightened worry less than others, quarrel less than others, fight less than others, transgress less than others; care more than others, give more than others, and love more than others.
12. The more you know the more there is to know, the more you learn the more there is to learn, the more you understand the more there is to understand. This burden upon us is called life.
13. Knowledge, teach. Wisdom, acquire. Understanding, share. Love, spread.
14. Gathering eggs is common sense; waiting for them to hatch is wisdom.
15. Know truth. Respect facts. Doubt opinions. Reject lies.
Not all of us were meant to teach,
but all of us were meant to learn.
Not all of us were meant to lead,
but all of us were meant to serve.
Not all of us were meant to be rich,
but all of us were meant to be charitable.
Not all of us were meant to be famous,
but all of us were meant to be upright.
Not all of us were meant to be mighty,
but all of us were meant to persevere.
Not all of us were meant to be extraordinary,
but all of us were meant to prevail.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
