Top 500 Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

102. “It takes maturity to admit that you are wrong, especially when you are right.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

103. “Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

104. “The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

105. “We ought to be thankful not for our eyes but for our ability to see.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

106. “Intelligent people question everything. Stupid people answer every question.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

107. “In most cases, travelling does not really broaden one’s mind; it merely shows or reminds one that one’s mind is narrow.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

108. “Calmness has the power to leave dirty water as clean water on top of dirt.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

109. “Life has always been and will always be beautiful, regardless of how some or even all people have looked, are looking, or will look at it.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

110. “The mismanagement of money makes many overpaid people seem underpaid.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

111. “Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

112. “People who died of starvation are not nearly as pitiful as those who died of overeating.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

113. “Humans are trash.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

114. “Some people love attention so much that they usually wish for their rhetorical question to be answered.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

115. “A genuine enemy is more useful than a fake friend.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

116. “A beautiful woman has an unfair advantage when her work, performance, or ability is judged by a straight man. But has an unfair disadvantage when it is judged by an ugly woman.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

117. “A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

118. “Most nobodies are somebodies and most somebodies are nobodies somewhere.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

119. “You need to have really wasted your life to envy the young for being young.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

120. “Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

121. “A problem is a shadow of the illusion of a self.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

122. “Our mind cannot be freed into the present moment while we are caged by the illusion of multitasking.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

123. “Pleasure is not a need, but an incentive.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

124. “Passion is a foundation, not a guarantee, of greatness.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

125. “Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

126. “Our education system would be betraying its master, capitalism, if it taught us to be content with what we have. Or if it told us about the fruits of practicing minimalism.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

127. “The wise treat horniness like a hiccup; the foolish, like an asthma attack.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

128. “Civilization has turned human beings into the worst thing to ever happen to planet earth.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

129. “Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions of births.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

130. “Genuine happiness is not nearly as common as a fake smile.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

131. “Homosexuality is natural. It is homophobia that is unnatural.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

132. “Because of their lack of originality, women who say that they like their men like they like their coffee turn off even men who are black and strong.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

133. “Stealing someone’s money is not nearly as bad as wasting their time.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

134. “Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

135. “Usually, that which could have been better could have been worse.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

136. “Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

137. “The most fruitful breaks are often those we are or were forced to take by life.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

138. “Because they can be lost, things such as success and fame – unlike things such as intelligence and wisdom – are accompanied by anxiety.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

139. “Ignorance is at best merely a drop of bliss, whereas spiritual knowledge is at all times an ocean of bliss.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

140. “Caffeine’ is a euphemism for ‘Anxiety wrapped in increased alertness’.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

141. “It is easy to be a good person when times are good.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

142. “Some things are not worth dying for, but without them life is not worth living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

143. “Stolen oranges also have Vitamin C. Likewise, a stolen salmon, too, has omega-3 fatty acids.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

144. “Most people never cease to exercise their right to disbelieve something that is obvious, or to believe something that is ridiculous.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

145. “Some people are chronically unhappy only because they do not have some of the things some people expect them to want.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

146. “The degree of our intellectual growth is inversely proportional to the number of people with whom we are still close friends.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

147. “We are so used to eating unhealthy food that we deem obsessed with health people who watch what they eat.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

148. “Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

149. “It is foolish to expect a fool to act wisely.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

150. “Sometimes the correct answer is neither ‘a’ nor ‘b’, but ‘a-b’.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana