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1 _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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2 something
['sʌmθɪŋ] 1. n, pronщо-не́будь, щось, де́щоsomething else — ще що-не́будь
to be up to something — замишля́ти щось недо́бре
he is something of a painter — він до де́якої мі́ри худо́жник
I felt there was a little something wanting — я відчува́в, що чого́сь не вистача́є
there is something about it in the papers — про це зга́дується в газе́тах
••2. advto think something of oneself — бу́ти висо́кої ду́мки про се́бе
1) тро́хи, до де́якої мі́ри, де́щоsomething like — тро́хи схо́жий
something too much of this — на́дто бага́то цього́
2) прибли́зноit must be something like six o'clock — ма́бу́ть, бли́зько шо́стої годи́ни
3) чудо́воthat's something like a hit! — оце́ так уда́р!
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3 _розум; мудрість; думка
advice is something the wise don't need and the fools won't take all great minds run in the same channel all men are fools, but the wisest of fools are called philosophers better an empty purse than an empty head a big head means a big headache bought wisdom is best if you don't pay too dear for it entertain no thoughts which you would blush at in words the doors of wisdom are never shut a flow of words is no proof of wisdom the fool wonders; the wise man asks go where he will, a wise man is always at home happy is the man who finds wisdom and gets understanding he who questions nothing learns nothing high living, low thinking if what men most admire they would despise, it would look like mankind were growing wise it is easy to be wise after the event it needs great wisdom to play the fool little hair, much wit know thyself knowledge and wisdom are far from being one men talk wisely but live foolishly nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time no man can be always wise no man is born wise or learned one good head is better than a thousand strong hands one hears only what he understands popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world riches serve a wise man but command a fool so many men, so many minds speech is the gift of all but the thought of few a still tongue makes a wise head two heads are better than one where all think alike, no one thinks very much where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise wisdom doesn't always speak in Greek and Latin wisdom goes not always by years wisdom in a poor man is a diamond set in lead wisdom is ever a blessing, education is sometimes a curse wisdom is the wealth of the wise a wise man changes his mind; a fool never does a wise man is strong a wise man will make more opportunities than he finds a wise man's day is worth a fool's life wise men care not for what they cannot have wise men learn by other men's mistakes; fools insist on learning by their own a word to the wise words are the wise man's counters and the fool's moneyEnglish-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > _розум; мудрість; думка
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