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1 example teaches more than precept
var: a good example is the best sermonкраще приклад, ніж наукаEnglish-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > example teaches more than precept
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2 _навчання; вченість
colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints curiosity killed the cat don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs doubt grows up with knowledge education makes the man every good scholar is not a good schoolmaster example is better than precept example teaches more than precept a handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning he that knows nothing, doubts nothing he knows most who speaks least he who is ignorant of foreign languages knows not his own he who never learns anything never forgets anything increase your knowledge and you increase your griefs in spite of colleges and schools, the world remains a ship of fools it is never too late to learn it is a task to learn, but it is much harder to unlearn a learned man is twice born knowledge and wisdom are far from being one knowledge is knowing that we cannot know knowledge is power learn from the mistakes of others a learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one a learned man can be appreciated only by another learned man learning is better than house and land learning is the eye of the mind learning makes a good man better and a bad man worse a little learning is a dangerous thing live and learn men learn while they teach money spent on the brain is never spent in vain mother wit is better than book education nature passes nurture no man is born wise or learned old foxes want no tutors soon learnt soon forgotten there is no royal road to learning they that think they know everything, know nothing too much knowledge makes the head bald wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket what is learned in the cradle lasts to the grave wit once bought is worth twice taught years know more than books we can learn only from our betters you can lead a boy to college, but you can't make him thinkEnglish-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > _навчання; вченість
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