The Routledge Book of World Proverbs
A doctor and a farmer know more than a doctor alone. (German)
All that is known is not told. (Egyptian)
Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one. (Turkish)
Everyone is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself. (Roman)
Everyone wishes to know, but no one is willing to pay the price. (Roman)
Hardly one man in ten knows himself. (Roman)
He that converses not knows nothing. (Turkish)
He who knows himself as well as his opponent will be invincible. (Korean)
He who knows little often repeats it. (English)
He who knows little soon tells it. (Spanish)
He who knows nothing doubts nothing. (Spanish)
He who knows nothing knows enough, if he knows how to be silent. (Italian)
He who knows nothing suspects nothing. (the Editor)
He who knows one knows none. (German)
He who knows the road can ride full trot. (Italian)
If three know it, all know it. (Italian)
It is nothing for you to know a thing unless another knows that you know it. (Roman)
It takes one to know one. (American)
Know not what you know, and see not what you see. (Roman)
Know thyself. (Greek)
Know thyself to know others, for heart beats like heart. (Chinese)
Many know many things, no one everything. (English)
Neither is it permitted to know all things. (Roman)
No man knows whose morrow it will be. (Yiddish)
No one knows what will happen to him before sunset. (Danish)
Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse. (Nigerian)
Often it is not even advantageous to know what will be. (Roman)
One is known by his companions. (Roman)
Ten lands are sooner known than one man. (Yiddish)
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. (Swedish)
The more one knows, the less one boasts of knowing. (Spanish)
The more one knows, the more one doubts. (Spanish)
The one who knows knows. (Mexican)
The one who knows most says the least. (Italian)
To know a person, you must live with a person. (Irish)
To know all is to forgive all. (French)
To know and to act are one and the same. (Samurai)
To know everything is to know nothing. (Italian)
To know is easier than to do. (German)
To know me is to love me. (American)
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. (Chinese)
We know what we have, but not what we shall get. (German)
We will be known by the tracks we leave behind. (Native American)
What you don’t know can’t hurt you. (American)
Who knows most believes least. (Italian)
Who knows most says least. (French)
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