Quotes about wisdom

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

People never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves.

There is only one way to learn. It's through action.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Don't explain. Your friends don't need it, and your enemies won't believe it anyway.

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

There is no place you or I can go, to think about or not think about, to summon the presences of, or recollect the absences of slaves.

Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take away the legacies of the past.