Top 500 Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “Drunkards have a problem, not with sobriety, but with reality.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

402. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

405. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

407. “You cannot be blessed with the ability to be happy without being cursed with the ability to be unhappy.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

408. “Time and money are almost always saved to be wasted.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

410. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

412. “Using unbreakable cups robs us of yet another incentive to be mindful.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

413. “To be ashamed of being poor, you need, not only poverty, but also stupidity.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

415. “Buying something you do not need is a waste of money, even if it is a bargain.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

416. “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

417. “For someone’s ugliness or the congenital abnormality of their body or body part, if we cannot help but laugh, we ought to laugh, not at them, but at Mother Nature.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

419. “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

420. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

422. “Overeating regularly eventually leads to underliving.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

424. “Our rationality is a visitor.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

428. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

432. “Thanks to their egos, instead of simply saying that they do not know, some people sometimes try very hard to remember something they know they have never known.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

434. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

439. “History and man made each other.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

441. “An accident is often caused by an attempt to prevent one.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

445. “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

446. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

448. “Happiness is merely a consolation for not yet being dead.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

449. “Practice exaggerates talent.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

450. “It takes patience to nurture patience.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana