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Proverbs for Graduation


Proverbs for Graduation

Not everything a scholar knows he learned from his teacher.                 
-Barbados

Education is the work of your entire life.                                               -Haiti

Learning is for life, eating is for today.                                                  -Kiswahili

Learning is like sailing the ocean: no one has ever seen it all.               -Africa

Inquiry saves a man from mistakes. He who makes no inquiry, gets himself into trouble.
-Benin, Nigeria, Togo (Yoruba)

 No one is without knowledge except him who asks no questions.
-Central Africa (Fulfulde)

Knowledge is like a forest bird, one person alone can't catch it.
-Ghana (Akan)


A traveler who asks questions doesn't miss his way.
- Africa

No matter how full the river, it still wants to grow.
-Democratic Republic of the Congo

If you understand the beginning well, the end won't trouble you.
-Ghana (Ashanti)

Where you will sit when you are old shows where you stood in youth. 
- Benin, Nigeria, Togo (Yoruba)

Better you lose time than character. 
-Jamaica

Rice is one, but there are many ways of cooking.
-Kiswahili

Some birds avoid the water, ducks look for it.
-Nigeria

It is survival not bravery that makes a man climb a thorny tree.
-Uganda (Ganda)

The river may be wide, but it can be crossed.
-Ivory Coast

If one person kindles the fire, others can take live coals from it.
-Ghana (Twi)

A person is a person because of other persons.
-Lesotho

Though a tree grows ever so high, the falling leaves return to its roots.
-Malawi

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.
-Sierra Leone

There is no foot that does not stumble.
-South Africa (Zulu)

For more African proverbs for graduation and other special occasions, please see Lifelines: The African Book of Proverbs



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