Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand.

More African Proverbs

• Children are the reward of life.
• If there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do no harm.
• A woman is a flower in a garden; her husband is the fence around it.
• Other people’s wisdom prevents the king from being called a fool.
• When you show the child the moon, it sees only your finger.
• There is no fool who is disowned by his family.
• African Proverbs About Love
• Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
• When one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow.
• To love someone who doesn’t love you is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall.
• He who does not know one thing knows another
• A wise person doesn’t fall down the same hill twice.
• He who refuses to obey cannot command.
• Love for something makes a man blind and deaf.
• All monkeys cannot hang from the same branch.
• It takes a village to raise a child.
• African Proverbs About Wisdom
• Having a good discussion is like having riches.
• If you educate a man, you educate one person. If you educate a woman, you educate a whole family.
• A feeble effort will not fulfill the self.
• You know who you love but you can’t know who loves you.
• To try and to fail is not laziness.
• A fool cannot untie the knot tied by a wise man.
• Don’t be so in love that you can’t tell when it’s raining.
• A roaring lion kills no game.
• It is hard to cure madness that originates in the family.
• Don’t meddle with a family feud.