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Afrikan Proverbs

African Quotes on Learning

Learning expands great souls. ~ Namibian proverb

To get lost is to learn the way. ~ African proverb

By crawling a child learns to stand. ~ African proverb

f you close your eyes to facts! you will learn through accidents. ~ African proverb

"e who learns! teaches. ~ #thiopian proverb

$ealth! if you use it! comes to an end% learning! if you use it! increases. ~ &wahili proverb

By trying often! the mon'ey learns to (ump from the tree. ~ Buganda proverb

)ou always learn a lot more when you lose than when you win. ~ African proverb

)ou learn how to cut down trees by cutting them down. ~ Bate'e proverb

The wise create proverbs for fools to learn! not to repeat. ~ African proverb

$hat you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him to learn.

~African proverb

By the time the fool has learned the game! the players have dispersed. ~Ashanti proverb

*ne who causes others misfortune also teaches them wisdom. ~ African proverb

)ou do not teach the paths of the forest to an old gorilla. ~+ongolese proverb

$hat you learn is what you die with. ~ African proverb

nstruction in youth is li'e engraving in stone. ~,oroccan -roverb

$hen you follow in the path of your father! you learn to wal' li'e him. ~Ashanti -roverb

#ars that do not listen to advice! accompany the head when it is chopped off. ~African

-roverb

Advice is a stranger% if hes welcome he stays for the night% if not! he leaves the same day.

~,alagasy -roverb

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Traveling is learning. ~/enyan -roverb

$here there are experts there will be no lac' of learners. ~&wahili -roverb

0A bird hanging between two branches will get bitten on both wings.0

t is foolhardy to climb two trees at once (ust because one has two feet.

1 #thiopian -roverb

0By trying often! the mon'ey learns to (ump from the tree.0

~ Buganda proverb

0The poorest person in the world is not the one without money but one without vision.0