We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.
Proverbs and old sayings Australian about purpose, home, time, love
What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him to learn.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about help, children, love, contentment
It's useless to tell a river to stop running; the best thing is to learn how to swim in the direction it's flowing.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about things
A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.
Proverbs and old sayings about man
If there are too many teachers or leaders with different ideas, the follower will not do nothing and learn nothing.
Proverbs and old sayings about teachers, nothing
Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about things
He who is not satisfied with himself will grow; he who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about things
A country where flowers are priced so as to make them a luxury has yet to learn the first principles of civilization.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about civilization, flowers, country
Diligence is the vehicle on the paths of Mountains of Books; endurance is the vessel on the courses of the Seas of Learning.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about books
Living at a river, one comes to know the nature of the fish therein; Dwelling by a mountain, one learns to recognize the language of the birds thereupon.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about language, nature, fishing
One who is afraid of asking questions is ashamed of learning.