Top 500 Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “The probability of something not happening does not decrease as we increase the number of times we worry about the possibility of it happening.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

352. “The sun does not rise or set. The earth rotates.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

353. “Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

354. “Our friends are often secretly made happy, or less unhappy, by their finding out about our problems, because that reminds them that they are not the only ones who have problems; that some people’s problems are way bigger than theirs; or that some people, unlike them, have real problems.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

355. “Speaking about interesting people does not necessarily make the speaker interesting.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

356. “Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five hundred, fifty, or even five dollars are way more important to the lives of most human beings than the lives of most human beings.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

357. “Drunkards have a problem, not with sobriety, but with reality.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

358. “With wisdom comes the rare ability to tell whether or not trying to change someone’s mind would be a waste of time.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

359. “At times it is what we do not say, or not saying a thing, that says a lot about us.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

360. “Our arrogance as a species is only a few degrees away from us claiming that we invented, not discovered, fire.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

361. “When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

362. “Because our minds are problem-solving machines, we are inclined to focus on the undesirable, usually at the expense of the desirable.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

363. “Unlearning makes learning at least three times longer than necessary.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

364. “Overeating regularly eventually leads to underliving.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

365. “You can choose what you want, but cannot choose what to want.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

366. “Our rationality is a visitor.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

367. “The main differences between prostitution and most relationships are the lengths of the relationships and the methods of payment.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

368. “By definition, love at first sight has nothing to do with the other person’s character or mind.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

369. “Employees go to school for 12 – 18 years merely to impress prospect employers in a 12 – 18 minutes interview.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

370. “If heaven really exists: then, technically, living is an activity that believers keep themselves busy with – while they wait for their death.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

371. “Once you realize that the vast majority of people see and know very little, you will rarely be affected when someone speaks ill or well of you.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

372. “The primary goal of a righteous parent who has a daughter is to minimize the number of boys and men for whom their daughter will have willingly opened her legs come her wedding day; the closer to zero, the more righteous they will seem.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

373. “A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

374. “A night full of nightmares is way better than a sleepless one.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

375. “Death is freedom from life.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

376. “Some children’s lives begin before the end of their parents’ childhood.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

377. “Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

378. “A restless mind makes a problem of a resting body.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

379. “At times the best thing you can do for someone is to refuse to help them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

380. “Some devices are smart, unlike their owners.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

381. “A blind man’s thoughts almost never have anything to do with the things he is facing.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

382. “The world would be a better place if even a fraction of us became the kinds of people we have deceived others into believing we are.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

383. “There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and how many problems it gives us.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

384. “Not knowing how venom kills does not take away the usefulness of knowing that it does.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

385. “You do not choose your thoughts. In fact, they are not yours. What’s more, you, too, are a thought.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

386. “Beauty is instantly more than doubled – ugliness, more than halved – by the mere act of smiling.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

387. “One of the fastest ways to improve your health is to eat slowly.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

388. “Most kids would not respect their parents as much as they do, or even at all, if they knew how intellectually undemanding is the role they played in their creation.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

389. “The goal of a truly spiritual practice is, not the realization of unity with everything, but the realization of the fact that you are everything.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

390. “It usually takes maturity in a child, and immaturity in an adult, not to be on speaking terms with someone.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

391. “Practice exaggerates talent.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

392. “History and man made each other.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

393. “Through drowsiness, your body is telling you that you need to rest. By drinking a caffeinated drink, you are telling it to go to hell.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

394. “Once you start learning from your problems, you stop wishing for a life without problems.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

395. “Oftentimes someone leaves their partner who is comparable to the sun for someone else who is comparable to a spark.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

396. “Only a fool would speak of their impatience or intolerance with pride.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

397. “Sometimes the only thing you can do is accept the fact that there is nothing you can do.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

398. “Funerals greatly exaggerate the pleasantness of being alive, while they prevent us from thinking about the advantages of being dead.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

399. “The hatred of money is almost always a defense mechanism.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

400. “Some people are each way more hurt by their worst enemy’s success than they were hurt by their then best friend’s death.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana