African Wisdom Quotes

#1. When the drum beat comes to an end, you shall not hear the drum beat again, but you shall remember how it sounded, and you shall understand clearly how you should or should not have danced to the drum beat #Quote by Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#2. In a game of chess, it is expedient to sacrifice your queen to capture your opponent's king. #Quote by Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. I set a high standard for myself. #Quote by Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Smile as if you are an angel from heaven. #Quote by Debasish Mridha

#5. Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side. #Quote by Jane Austen

#6. We have nothing to speak about. There never was. Words are an unnecessary trouble. Expression is time wasting away. Any communication is just a yelp in the darkness. I am speaking now but I am saying nothing. I am just making noises, and, as it happens, they are organized in words and you should not draw meaning from this. #Quote by Cecil Baldwin

#7. To know the reality one has to enter into the realm of Meta-science, beyond mind, which is only possible when we enter into the collective super-consciousness through self-realisation. #Quote by Nirmala Srivastava

#8. We are all born to fly. Instead, we sit on the branches afraid of the leap into the unknown. But the unknown is where enlightenment lives. Our true nature is the unknown. #Quote by Enza Vita

#9. Among the principles of the Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah lie the attitude of peace and purity of their heart and tongue towards the Sahaba(Companions) of the Prophet (saw). #Quote by Ibn Taymiyyah

#10. At times, look back towards your ancient days, drink deep from the eternal fountain of wisdom long gone, and then look ahead. #Quote by Abhijit Naskar

#11. If there is any intelligence guiding this universe, philosophy wishes to know and understand it and reverently work with it; if there is none, philosophy wishes to know that also, and face it without fear. If the stars are but transient coagulations of haphazard nebulae, if life is a colloidal accident, impersonally permanent and individually fleeting, if man is only a compound of chemicals, destined to disintegrate and utterly disappear, if the creative ecstasy of art, and the gentle wisdom of the sage, and the willing martyrdom of saints are but bright incidents in the protoplasmic pullulation of the earth, and death is the answer to every problem and the destiny of every soul
then philosophy will face that too, and try to find within that narrowed circle some significance and nobility for man. #Quote by Will Durant

#12. It is ok to be a teacher but it is great to be an educator. #Quote by Debasish Mridha

#13. There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African underTutustanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew. #Quote by Desmond Tutu

#14. The mind is the center of all attractions. #Quote by Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. The world is a classroom,
nature is our teacher,
life is our exam,
and death is our graduation.

The world is a sage,
humanity are its students,
the universe is a master,
and gurus are its graduates. #Quote by Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. Love is like fire, it can burn you, but it also can melt your heart to make you the most beautiful and beloved person. #Quote by Debasish Mridha

#17. We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850. #Quote by Marianne Williamson

#18. When the veil of the knower falls away the creative force of discovery guides your way - each moment is revealed as new. #Quote by Jon Bernie

#19. We all have scars. Just because mine are hidden doesn't make them any less painful. #Quote by Nicki Salcedo

#20. Reality is only possible if you are in the realm of joy. #Quote by Nirmala Srivastava

#21. However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects. #Quote by William Labov

#22. The sidhe (shee) were not an agreeable people. The oldest of the faerie races considered non-sidhe beneath them in beauty, wisdom, and nearly every aspect except humor. Some feelings were simply useless, according to them. #Quote by Astoria Wright

#23. The light can only shine in the darkness. #Quote by Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. I have no wisdom, no skills, and no faith but I received strength, it tears the world apart. I shall break, a heavy wave, against its shores and a young wave will cover my trace. #Quote by Czeslaw Milosz

#25. Wind likes to open the curtains; wisdom likes to open the curtains! #Quote by Mehmet Murat Ildan

#26. ...if thou art persuaded that God is true, why dost thou doubt of his promises? - and if thou believest that God is beauty and perfection itself, why dost not thou make him alone the chief end of all thine affections and desires? for if thou lovest beauty, he is most fair; if thou desirest riches, he is most wealthy; if thou seekest wisdom, he is most wise. Whatsoever excellency thou hast seen in any creature, it is nothing but a sparkle of that which is in infinite perfection in God... #Quote by Lewis Bayly

#27. Religion without reason is merely an illusion of religion – it is a mockery of religion, like it has become today. #Quote by Abhijit Naskar

#28. The writer who offends nobody has nothing to say. #Quote by Yeo-tze

#29. Allowing both negative and positive thoughts to arise in life and acknowledging them for what they are, a secondary reaction within to what is happening outside, we grant our emotions free passage within without allowing external influences to impede our personal happiness. We cannot have control over everything that occurs in life, but that is simply not the goal, for we have control only over our relationship that we have with life. #Quote by Forrest Curran

#30. Time is the empty space that allows knowledge
let alone wisdom
to grow. #Quote by John Hunter

#31. Living as an entity under a filled with stars sky and seeking for intuition, a voice whispers from your heart, for soul is unchained from whatever pulls it down, while what she is craving for is but only Ascension towards Divine . #Quote by Katerina Kostaki

#32. Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame. #Quote by Jonathan Swift

#33. Peace is a way of life.
Peace is a way of love.
Peace is a heart's forgiveness.
Peace is a mind's kindness.
Peace is living in harmony.
Peace is living with courtesy.
Peace is living with trust.
Peace is living with truth and trust.
Peace is living with freeness.
Peace is living with happiness. #Quote by Debasish Mridha

#34. Well-meant techniques such as arbitrary self-mortification, are useless. #Quote by Idries Shah

#35. I began my studies with eagerness. Before me I saw a new world opening in beauty and light, and I felt within me the capacity to know all things. In the wonderland of Mind I should be as free as another [with sight and hearing]. Its people, scenery, manners, joys, and tragedies should be living tangible interpreters of the real world. The lecture halls seemed filled with the spirit of the great and wise, and I thought the professors were the embodiment of wisdom... But I soon discovered that college was not quite the romantic lyceum I had imagined. Many of the dreams that had delighted my young inexperience became beautifully less and "faded into the light of common day." Gradually I began to find that there were disadvantages in going to college. The one I felt and still feel most is lack of time. I used to have time to think, to reflect, my mind and I. We would sit together of an evening and listen to the inner melodies of the spirit, which one hears only in leisure moments when the words of some loved poet touch a deep, sweet chord in the soul that until then had been silent. But in college there is no time to commune with one's thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one enters the portals of learning, one leaves the dearest pleasures – solitude, books and imagination – outside with the whispering pines. I suppose I ought to find some comfort in the thought that I am laying up treasures for future enjoyment, but I am improvident enough to pref #Quote by Helen Keller

#36. Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors. #Quote by Alan Sugar

#37. Life is too short to hold grudges, plan vengeance, and be angry for too long. And people say things like that all the time, but words like that only take on their meaning when you experience someone close to you passing away. There are truly not enough minutes, hours, days, months, years, to spend any amount of time on being and doing anything other than going into the direction of your happiness. Acceptance is better than correction and joy is better than revenge. Innocent laughter is better than anger. #Quote by C. JoyBell C.

#38. To transform this world into a better place to live, make yourself a better person first. #Quote by Debasish Mridha

#39. Wisdom is earned, not given #Quote by Dante Alighieri

#40. It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana. #Quote by W.E.B. Du Bois

#41. Education is no substitute for intelligence. #Quote by Frank Herbert

#42. Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government, we will be a distracted, contentious people. #Quote by Timothy Thomas Fortune

#43. When you begin to read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind of translation of your own; but to accept it because its stews taste exactly like your old mother's hash, or to reject it because the owl-headed goddess of wisdom in its temple is fatter than the Statue of Liberty, is an equal mark of that want of imagination, that inaccessibility to experience, of which each of us who dies a natural death will die. #Quote by Randall Jarrell

#44. When one heart feels the other
and in harmony, love is there. #Quote by Debasish Mridha

#45. You always learn a lot more when you lose than when you win #Quote by African Proverb

#46. A best friend is he who hurts you with their love and feels you when you're hurt. #Quote by Debasish Mridha

#47. Stupidity is sufficient unto itself. Wisdom can never learn enough. #Quote by Mechthild Of Magdeburg

#48. I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something solid. For I hold that it is only when we can prove all that we bring forward that we perfectly understand the thing under consideration. I know that the common herd takes little pleasure in these researches, but I know also that the common herd take little pains thoroughly to understand things. #Quote by Gottfried Leibniz

#49. Wisdom is not a question of learning facts with the mind; it can only be acquired through perfection of living. #Quote by Nilakanta Sri Ram