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To be knowledgeable, sit before scholars; to be wise, sit before life.

To be knowledgeable, sit before scholars; to be wise, sit before life.
– Matshona Dhliwayo

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  2. If you want to shine, sit before a lamp; if you want to shine brighter, sit before a fire; but if you want to shine the brightest, sit before a sage. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  3. Be knowledgeable.Be logical.Be affable.Be trustable. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  4. To be knowledgeable, learn new things every day; to be wise, unlearn things that you learn with wit and love. – Debasish Mridha
  5. Sages see further with their eyes closed than scholars with their eyes open. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  6. It is wise to read some books, and wise to throw away some. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  7. A wise quote may not be famous and a famous quote may not be wise! Stick to the wise as the other one is just a bubble! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  8. Think before you speak. Question before you judge. Examine before you decide. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  9. The power of touch. Life is controlled by such a facet manipulated by Man. All are knowledgeable of its boundaries, most are negligent. – Brian Vihlen
  10. Counting your chickens before they hatch is only wise if God has told you how many will survive. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  11. Wise people are only wise because they have lived many lives before. – Leydi Morfa
  12. We sit, silent, the comfortable way only good friends can sit. – Alex Flinn
  13. Governments stand because people sit; if people stand, governments will sit! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  14. Are you going to sit or are you afraid I’ll suck your blood?--œNo, I am not afraid.--œThen come sit next to me.- ~ Trent and Kiara: Scarred – Amanda Leigh
  15. No matter how knowledgeable you are, respect your parents for their experience and your children for their curiosity. – Amit Kalantri
  16. You are knowledgeable when you know yourself. – Debasish Mridha
  17. Be knowledgeable, but not realistic! – Goran Spasa
  18. To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  19. A straight face is an ignorant man’s attempt to appear knowledgeable. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  20. It is not enough to acquire knowledge. Common-sense is paramount. Sadly, it is not in every knowledgeable person’s shed. – Muhammed Muazu Mukaddas
  21. Resolute, responsible, determined, knowledgeable, and perceptive – Lee Child
  22. A virtuous spouse adds years to your life, a wise one adds decades, but a loving one adds an eternity to your life. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  23. Wisdom is a teacher,God is its professor.The wise are His students,life is His rod,and eternal life is our reward. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  24. Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable–the rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars. – Rodney Stark
  25. Scholars, I plead with you, Where are your dictionaries of the wind, the grasses? – Norman MacCaig
  26. Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. – Werner Herzog
  27. The Sufis,’ runs the saying, ‘understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds – Idries Shah
  28. Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe. – Nick Harkaway
  29. Parenting is a sacred responsibility with the sobering reality, of raising scholars or scars. – Tom Althouse
  30. Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. – Steven Pinker
  31. The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you’ll labor like scholars over a bulldog’s pedigree. – Robert Bolt
  32. Scholars have long debated whether capital markets lead to appropriate levels of saving and investment for future generations. – David L Weimer
  33. Scholars have long debated whether capital markets lead to appropriate levels of saving and investment for future generations. – David L Weimer
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  35. But in a time of war, knowledge made interesting friendships. Soon, the scholars and the thieves were . . . well, thick as thieves. – Ken Liu
  36. All scholars are a bit mad. All obsessions are dangerous. – AS Byatt
  37. If you have power, be just; wealth, be generous; knowledge, be wise; titles, be humble; and life, be grateful. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  38. Life is too short to listen to fools, and too important to ignore the wise. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  39. Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination. – Bryant McGill
  40. When fortune favors fools, it is to punish them for the sake of the wise. – Matshona Dhliwayo

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