Top 500 Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes (2026 Update)
Page 9 of 10

401. “No expert was born an expert.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

402. “We deny the fact that people get into or remain in our lives mainly for selfish reasons mainly for a selfish reason, namely, to protect our cherished belief that we are special.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

403. “Being older deceives us into thinking that we are experts at being the ages we used to be.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

404. “The biggest lie ever told by a man to his woman is that his child with another woman is not his. The biggest lie ever told by a woman to her man is that her child with another man is his.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

405. “Some women would not have contracted an STD or STDs had they not been on the pill.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

406. “We often betray our arrogance or immaturity by asserting that we will never do something bad that we are capable of doing.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

407. “Making love instead of war is likely to lead to an even bigger population, which is likely to lead to wars.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

408. “Like shyness, cowardice cannot swim in alcohol.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

409. “Some people are so self-conscious that they are unable to make eye contact for longer than a second, even when they are wearing dark sunglasses.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

410. “A freedom-fighter is a slave to freedom.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

411. “Some men do not know the father of ‘their’ children.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

412. “Some people would deem their parents or children ugly if they were not theirs.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

413. “99.99% of fools deny their foolishness. The rest underestimate it.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

414. “Some people make it extremely difficult to continue believing that complaining is not one of the basic human needs.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

415. “Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on; unless, of course, you are the book’s publisher.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

416. “True women empowerment will occur only as a result, not of the disempowerment of men, but of the stopping of our caring about the kind of genitals a person has, except when it comes to things such as reproduction and the use of public toilets.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

417. “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

418. “Even the longest book is read and was written one word at a time.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

419. “Politicians’ competence lies not in solving our problems but in convincing us that they will.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

420. “It takes a great degree of tolerance, and that of humility, to strongly disagree with someone, and not express your disagreement.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

421. “Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

422. “Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

423. “There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

424. “It is childish to be surprised by something that you knew exists or is possible.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

425. “A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

426. “One of the most common and most dangerous misbeliefs is that it is impossible for someone to be stupid just because they are a doctor or a lawyer.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

427. “Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

428. “It is impossible to count your blessings while you are counting the things with which you need or want to be blessed.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

429. “Some of those who faked it until they made it are now faking not to have made it.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

430. “Most people are tormented by the conflict between their fear of standing out and their desire to be the center of attention.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

431. “You can feel like you will starve to death if you do not eat within 21 seconds; not eat at all; and still be alive after 21 days.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

432. “Sanity is a never-ending tug of war between oneself, pulling one’s attention towards happiness, and one’s mind, pulling it towards unhappiness.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

433. “We do things for others for ourselves.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

434. “We sometimes congratulate someone, not because we value or find worthy what they have just achieved, but only because we fear coming across as jealous.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

435. “Many a woman is in a relationship with or married to her man not because she loves him but only because she likes men like him.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

436. “Suffering adds spice to life.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

437. “Some real kings are drama queens.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

438. “Slavery often masquerades as freedom.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

439. “We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

440. “Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

441. “The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How many children are you raising?’ are not identical in all cases: some men are not taking care of their own children, some are knowingly or unknowingly raising other men’s children, and some do not even know that they each have a child, another child, or other children.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

442. “We seldom look up to the person; we usually look up to their persona.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

443. “Fear happens inside the brain not inside the womb.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

444. “The biggest problem with mentorship is that in almost all cases the mentor either cannot make the mentee better than them, or does not want that to ever happen.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

445. “We urgently need to either start increasing the size of our planet, or stop increasing the size of our population.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

446. “It is a rare blessing to see things, and to accept people, as they are.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

447. “Not knowing how to get what you want is better than knowing how to get what you do not want.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

448. “A lot is said by the fact that you are unlikely to listen to an entire album by an African American rapper without coming across the word ‘police’.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

449. “A desired thing often comes with seeds of at least one desire.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

450. “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