Knowledge is light. And all who contribute bring light to our world.

More Bedouin Proverbs

• Keep women far away from song, because it is a summons to adultery.
• Truth may walk through the world unarmed.
• Rather the cruelty of the Turks than the justice of the Bedouins.
• When you sleep in a house your thoughts are as high as the ceiling, when you sleep outside they are as high as the stars.
• At the narrow passage, there is no brother and no friend.
• He who shares my bread and salt is not my enemy.
• The lightly burdened shall be saved.
• My treasures do not chink or glitter. They gleam in the sun and neigh in the night.
• The braid must never walk before the moustache.
• Only in complete silence, will you hear the desert.
• Knowledge is light. And all who contribute bring light to our world.
• The broth is cooking, and now we have to act as one.
• As the camel falls to its knees, more knives are drawn.
• I against my brother. My brother and I against our cousin. My brother, my cousin and I against the neighbors. All of us against the stranger.