1. School is a hospital where people recover from ignorance; life is a hospital where people recuperate from arrogance.
2. It is difficult to fill a broken vessel, and impossible to fill a leaking one.
3. Wisdom is the best fruit on the tree of intelligence.
4. The mistakes of the wise are better than the wisdom of fools.
5. Pride destroys a man quicker than ignorance.
6. Ignorance peels away as knowledge is acquired.
7. Bad advice will blind you, good advice will instruct you, excellent advice will enlighten you, and transcendent advice will elevate you.
8. You have two eyes, but the discerning have three. You have two ears, but the wise have four. You have two hands, but the enlightened have five.
9. Knowledge is the path to success, ignorance is the highway to failure, but wisdom is the elevator to enlightenment.
10. Hunger is a lesser evil than ignorance.
11. A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.
12. The ignorant learn from none, the simple learn from some, the intelligent learn from many, but the enlightened learn from all.
13. There is no smarter professor than life, and no wiser sage than experience.
14. If you guide others out of the dark, you are enlightened, even if the whole world doesn’t know your name.
15. We all come into the world rocks, but the enlightened leave it diamonds.
“Who is a student?
One who seeks to learn.
Who is a teacher?
One who seeks to learn more than others.”
~Matshona Dhliwayo
