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The well-filled belly has little understanding of the empty.
Irish Proverb
An understanding person needs only half a word.
Dutch Proverb
From a pound of talk, an ounce of understanding.
Yemeni Proverb
If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.
Japanese Proverb
A fool finds pleasure in evil conduct, but a man of understanding delights in wisdom.
Italian Proverb
A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions.
Italian Proverb
Of the good we have an understanding, for fools we keep a stick upstairs.
Mongolian Proverb
The best candle is understanding.
Welsh Proverb
He who lacks knowledge derides his neighbor, but the man of understanding holds his tongue.
Moroccan Proverb
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
Traditional Proverb
Don't be stupid to replace wisdom with knowledge because you will lose understanding.
African Proverb
Having beauty doesn't mean understanding the perseverance of marriage.
African Proverb
The heart has arguments with which the understanding is unacquainted.
American Proverb
Through wisdom is a house built, and by understanding it is established.
American Proverb
Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
German Proverb
He who has no knowledge, understanding of something, should not engage in, or interfere with it.
Hungarian Proverb
When god will punish, he will first take away the understanding.
Romanian Proverb
Understanding is something we're sure the other fellow hasn't got.
Yiddish Proverb
When god will punish, he will first take away the understanding.
Russian Proverb
A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions.
Turkish Proverb
In chatter a river, in understanding but a single drop.
Latin Proverb
Education: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. (Ambrose Bierce)
English Proverb
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