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Bright enough in the dark, dull in time of day. [Learned in what is of no use, ignorant of everything at all available. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about dark, use, time, day

The learned are apt to be taciturn.

Proverbs and old sayings

What little Johnny has not learned, big John will not know.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish

Do not teach a learned person.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about people

Wisdom is born; stupidity is learned.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about stupidity, wisdom

A rich man is a learned man, a very rich man is astute.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, man

Italians talk to women, Frenchmen to the learned, and the Spaniard talks to God.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about god

Children act in the village as they have learned at home.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about children, home

Soon learned, soon forgotten.

Proverbs and old sayings

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

Proverbs and old sayings Welsh about wisdom

A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

A donkey that carries a lot of books is not necessarily learned.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about books

A huckster who cannot pass off mouse-turd for pepper, has not learned his trade.

Proverbs and old sayings German about commerce

The acolyte at the gate reads scriptures he has never learned.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Tree that grows crooked will never be straightened - bad habits learned early in life are hard to get rid of later.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about habits, life, bad luck, bad

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about man, knowledge, wisdom