African Quotes on Learning

When I read the quotes and sayings of a people i can see why they are the way they are, why they are headed by the leaders that they have. And then another part of a passage from the bible comes to mind "

• For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,
• And do not return there without watering the earth
• And making it bear and sprout,
• And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

Learning expands great souls. ~ Namibian proverb

• Experience reveals, expands or shrinks a soul, it's growth depends on the individual!

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

• Who wishes finds, who wills knows!

By crawling a child learns to stand. ~ African proverb

• A slave is a master!

If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents. ~ African proverb

• Experience reveals truths!

Wealth, if you use it, comes to an end; learning, if you use it, increases. ~ Swahili proverb

• Learning is wealth and can be exhausting!

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

• Determination to win keeps you from loosing! Losing a battle can lead to winning a war!

You learn how to cut down trees by cutting them down. ~ Bateke proverb

• Preserving a tree is also knowledge!

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

• Some wise men create pits for fools to learn!

What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him to learn. ~African proverb

• Supporting a child in their calling is better than making a choice for them!

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

• No one has the patience to put one through what one willingly enters into! Invent your own game and be the player!

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

• Every mistake is an opportunity to learn about who you are and what you can do! The second time things are always easier and faster. Always say thank you to those who gave you a lesson and consider the loss as a pay for which you would still have gone to school to acquire in theory but learnt in practice. Which is better? Time is saved when one learns in practice, there are just some things 4 walls can't teach you.

You do not teach the paths of the forest to an old gorilla. ~Congolese proverb

• He who teaches learns, at some point in one's life the old have to accept being lead as they once did. If pride gets in the way who knows who will be in danger, could it be the youth or the elder who is left behind as a pray? No one is too old to learn new things. A path once traveled can be seen as new again, for the elders take it as a new path to reliving your youth and this time not alone!

What you learn is what you die with. ~ African proverb

• So long as one keeps learning one remains young!

Instruction in youth is like engraving in stone. ~Moroccan Proverb

• Practice what you preach and the youth will follow!

Ears that do not listen to advice, accompany the head when it is chopped off. ~African Proverb

• A subjective advice can also lead to the same effect!

Advice is a stranger; if he’s welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day. ~Malagasy Proverb

• A thought is like a bird, capture it and it comes alive!

Traveling is learning. ~Kenyan Proverb

• Traveling opens the mind to comparing capabilities and outlining probabilities !

Where there are experts there will be no lack of learners. ~Swahili Proverb

• Everyone is attracted to Hero's!