1. If you are not a carpenter, you don’t know the quality of the wood. If you haven’t entered Tianshan, you don’t know the twists and turns of the mountain road.
2. If there is no river, why are the water birds circling?
3. Old hands and old arms cannot be touched by gods and ghosts.
4. Once bitten by a snake, you will be afraid of well ropes for ten years.
5. A sheepherder knows the pasture, and a hunter knows the wolf's den.
6. Now that you have carried the bucket, you will not return with an empty bucket.
7. Only when you go down the river can you know the depth of the water.
8. The monk copied the scripture and the monk recognized it.
9. Only when you get out of the water can you see the mud on your legs.
10. A mouth used to eating and legs used to running.
11. You will know when you have traveled far and near, and you will know when you taste the bitter and sweet. (Kazakh)
12. You can understand the nature of flowers by raising flowers, and you can understand the sounds of birds by raising birds.
13. Only after reading three hundred volumes of scriptures can one realize that it is difficult to practice and learn the Tao.
14. If you have never eaten coptis, you don’t know how bitter it is.
15. A road cannot be walked until it is reached, a thing cannot be accomplished without being done, a person cannot be kind without advice, and a bell cannot ring without ringing.
16. Heroes appear on the battlefield. (Kazakh)
17. Raise chickens to make a fortune, and suffer from stinky shit in vain.
18. The mute girl knows what she says.
19. It is better to work for one year than to study for ten years.
20. It is difficult for the God of Dharma protection to stand on his own, so why come to save all sentient beings?
21. Don’t buy a beggar’s donkey, as it will take too many empty steps to carry the lute.
22. Walk the road step by step and do things one by one.
23. For milk, let the calf leave the cow; for gold, let the foal leave the mare.
24. From selling steamed buns, I have experienced everything.
25. Don’t bend the arrow to the right, and don’t bend the bow to the right.
26. After taking medicine for three years, you will be able to see a doctor.
27. If you don’t take three steps, how can you be famous in the world?
28. It is better to go through the dry ears than to go through the hands.
29. It’s hard to tell whether the melon is sweet or not.
30. A journey of a thousand miles is worth ten years of reading.
31. A hairless mouth means unreliable work.
32. To know a horse, look at the foal, and to know a person, look at the child.
33. Swearing your daughter and scolding your daughter-in-law.
34. It is better to have seen it than to have heard it, and it is better to have done it than to have seen it.
35. If you are not persecuted by traitorous officials, you will not know how powerful they are.
36. When the fire is so intense that the pig’s head is rotten, the success will come naturally.
37. Although the oil lamp is bright, it relies on the sun for warmth.
38. Always like to look back when doing things, and if you turn around you will get an axe.
39. I have seen powerful kings turn into beggars.
40. If you don’t go to the Yamen to file a lawsuit, you will never know that it is difficult to enter the Yamen.
41. I was killed by a poisonous snake in my previous life, and I am suspicious when I see a flower rope today.
42. If you don’t bear the burden, you won’t know how heavy it is; if you don’t give birth, you won’t have stomachache.
43. Don’t be afraid to taste good food carefully.
44. If you can’t guard the fox hole, you can’t sew a leather jacket.
45. Although there are many sons who are older than their fathers, there are sons who are braver than their fathers.
46. A well-fed man does not know that a hungry man is hungry.
47. The lark who comes from the snow knows the value of spring.
48. A warrior becomes a warrior in a hundred battles, and an elite soldier is trained hard.
49. Although I have never kneaded tiger and leopard skins, I am expert at kneading sheep skins.
50. It was a mistake at first, then it was a mistake again.
51. When you are near the water, you know the nature of fish, and when you are near the mountains, you know the sounds of birds.
52. A horse will not remember its place if it does not stumble, and a man will not know his mistakes if he does not stumble. (Kazakh)
53. The poor spend their time eating and drinking, while the rich spend their time accumulating wealth.
54. A married woman throws away water.
55. Those who do not listen to advice are better to lower the water and lead it upward.
56. Beautiful women are like medicine to a spell master, but if a young monk comes into contact with them, they will become poisonous.
57. Steel comes out of the furnace, and heroes come out of the battlefield. (Kazakh)
58. An old patient is like a doctor, and an old doctor is like a guru.
59. A wise man hates a wise man, and a prostitute hates a prostitute.
60. Only a shepherd boy knows the way to herd a sheep.
61. Experience is a lock that imprisons one's feet.
62. Physical scars are easy to heal, but spiritual creations are difficult to heal.
63. A man must be prepared when he has a new life, and a woman must be prepared when giving birth.
64. I have been seriously ill for three years and still make money by practicing medicine.
65. My thief’s behavior is the same as your big thief’s.
66. If you are diligent, you will have everything; if you are lazy, you will have nothing.
67. Eat according to your ability and work according to your ability.
68. The same rice and noodles, the methods of hundreds of people.
69. The lobbyist in the room cannot suppress the debate, and the hero in the family cannot defeat the enemy. (Kazakh ethnic group)
70. When the rat is in a bad mood, it spreads its wings, and when the black rabbit is in a bad mood, it shows its teeth.
71. Take one step and see.
72. You cannot eat cakes drawn on the wall, and you cannot ride horses drawn on paper.
73. With a few scriptures in mind, the articles can tell the difference.
74. Once you come to the venue, don’t shut up.
75. The innocent bird catches as many insects as the guilty harrier catches.
76. Be ashamed of those close to you, and be emerald of the horse you often ride.
77. The road depends on people, and everything depends on people.
78. One wrong step leads to another wrong step.
79. When the book is used, it will be forgotten.
80. People make roads and plant trees.
81. Go into the mountains with a leather jacket in June.
82. There is no gate in the mountains, and there is no way for beggars to live.
83. Only a mouse knows the path of a mouse.
84. I want to fly even if my wings are not strong.
85. Seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times, and practicing is worse than seeing once.
86. In order to defeat the big whale, feed the small white dragon with milk.
87. To know the farm work, take off the three layers of skin in the sun.
88. If you lose the needle, you will panic; if you lose the cow, you will rise slowly.
89. If you are tied up, you can control it. It is a dog, but if you can be persuaded, it is a human being.
90. A tropical jacket full of dry food.
91. I want to eat grass on the cliffs, but I don’t want to go to the plains.
92. The children of the poor will become masters early.
93. The wolf boy in those days ate several sheep boys.
94. A good horse is running, but a good wrestler is throwing. (Kazakh)
95. If you don’t go to the mountains, you won’t know the level land.
96. Dogs go to the temple to get food from the gods.
97. If you see something, you will know something, but if you don’t see it, you will not understand it.
98. A layman is arrogant, an expert is shaking his box.
99. When you are old in the world, your courage becomes weak.
100. A good rider dies on horseback, and a good swimmer dies in the river.
101. No matter how fast the steel knife is, it must be sharpened, and pig iron cannot be finished without beating it.
102. A beautiful man is a decoration for a woman, and a beautiful woman is a decoration for a man.
103. If you want to water dry fields, dig a karez first.
104. To know a horse, look at the foal, and to know a person, look at the child. (Kazakh)
105. Once you are unlucky, you gain experience.
106. Whether it’s a mule or a horse, it’s a man or a ghost walking around under the sun.
107. A child can only walk after falling down a hundred times. (Kazakh)
108. Only when you enter the mountains can you see the scenery. ——It is also said that only when you enter the mountain can you find the Moru Circle.
109. Science is not mysterious, practice brings out the truth.
110. When you are familiar with the road, things will go smoothly.
111. If you don’t follow the road, grass will grow into a nest.
112. Although the patch is a horizontal patch, it only needs to cover the hole.
113. Don’t eat mutton; you can’t grow mutton therapy.
114. When begging for food, ask generous people; when asking questions, ask upright people.
115. Don’t buy cows from wine-making women. They will become fat after eating the wine’s lees.
116. When parents were alive, they built new houses, but when they were children, they demolished the houses and sold the beams.
117. The old wolf is quick to seize the sheep.
118. If you cannot sit in the Golden Palace, you will not know the troubles of the emperor.
119. Thousands of wicker sticks are woven into a basket. If you don’t know how to weave a basket, you will not know how difficult it is.
120. The boat will naturally go straight under the bridge, and the sheep will follow a straight line on the mountain road.
121. When a person reaches thirty-five, he is just like a tiger in the mountain; when a person reaches forty-five, he becomes like a tiger in the mountain. Proverbs about practice
1. Whoever wants to know more must sleep less. (Armenian proverb)
2. Haste makes waste.
3. Those who do not want to see are worse than the blind; those who do not want to hear are worse than the deaf. (French proverb)
4. A bad pen is better than a good memory.
5. Only by forging iron can you become a blacksmith. (French proverb)
6. Countless grains of soil cross the endless ocean of learning. (Mongolian proverb)
7. If you don’t make progress every day, you will retreat.
8. Only by asking questions while learning can you become knowledgeable.
9. Fetching water depends on the well rope, and knowledge depends on practice.
10. Learn less from victory and more from failure.
11. Wisdom comes from being well-informed. (Arab proverb)
12. Never leaving home, full of prejudice.
13. Learning is like driving a car to climb a mountain. If you don’t advance, you will retreat. (Japanese proverb)
14. People who don’t ask will always be together with ignorance. (East African proverb)
15. Knowing your ignorance means you have gained something. (Latin American proverb)
16. Knowledge is stored in the sea of ??humility. (Korean proverb)
17. Half-understanding ten arts is not as good as mastering one.
18. Practice is the key to opening the treasure house of theory.
19. Whoever enjoys too much has no time to study. (French proverb)
20. To think is to argue with yourself. (Spanish proverb)
21. Don’t be satisfied no matter how profound your knowledge is, and don’t ignore your mistakes no matter how small they are. (Mongolian proverb)
22. The ears have no bottom, and they can hear from morning to night. (African proverb)
23. A day of a scholar is more valuable than a life of an ignorant person. (Arab proverb)
24. Genius lies in tempering.
25. Knowledge is more valuable than pure gold.
26. If you are too greedy to learn many skills, you will achieve nothing in vain.
27. One careful consideration is better than a hundred hasty actions. (Yugoslav proverb)
28. Dancing with a sword is one thing, fighting is another. (Korean proverb)
29. Nothing can be known without being born.
30. The more you exercise, the stronger your body becomes, and the more you use your brain, the smarter you become.
31. Knowledge is like spring water under the sand and gravel. The deeper you dig, the clearer the spring water becomes. (Danish proverb)
32. It is difficult to know the world without having your feet out.
33. You have to learn everything from scratch.
34. Feathers make the peacock look various, and knowledge makes people smart and capable.
35. Knowledge has no bottom, and learning has no limit. (Mongolian proverb)
36. An ounce of knowledge equals a hundred times the effort.
37. Books that are kept but not read are like waste paper. (British proverb)
38. What you learn when you are young will never be forgotten until you die.
39. Chasing the two rabbits failed.
40. Knowledge requires repeated exploration, and land requires hard work.
(Nepalese proverb) Proverbs that practice the truth
1. Practice selflessness, neither showing favoritism to individuals nor yielding to authority.
2. If you don’t understand things without experience, the road will not be smooth.
3. Happiness comes from labor, and truth comes from practice.
4. The hands are diligent and the brain is clever; the hands are diligent and the brain is clever.
5. If you don’t experience something, you won’t gain a piece of wisdom.
6. If you don’t explore the deep mountains, you won’t be able to collect ginseng.
7. Knowledge is a treasure house, but the key to unlocking this treasure house is practice. --Britain. Thor Fuller
8. It is better to have seen than heard, and it is better to have done than seen.
9. Those who cannot see everything are the affairs of the world; those who cannot read them thoroughly are the books of the world; those who cannot understand them are the principles of the world.
10. After some practice, you will gain some experience.
11. If you don’t taste the bitterness of Coptis chinensis, how can you know the sweetness of honey?
12. Only when you taste the food with your mouth can you know whether it is salty or not; only when you try the shoes with your feet can you know the size.
13. If you don’t climb the mountains, how can you know the level land? If you don’t eat tares, how can you know the thickness?
14. You can only pick up shells at the beach, and you can only harvest fish and shrimps in the sea.
15. Not hearing is worse than hearing it, hearing it is worse than seeing it, seeing it is worse than knowing it, and knowing it is worse than doing it.
16. A thousand mouth gestures cannot equal one hand gesture.
17. Make a wish slowly, but act quickly.
18. If you don’t go to the rugged mountains, you won’t know that the earth is flat.
19. After all, it is easy to get the second piece of paper, but you must do it carefully.
20. Having experienced many things, one can acquire hundreds of wisdom.
21. You can see it and you can tell it.
22. One word is worse than one action; one hundred times of yearning is like one climb.
23. Those who aim too high will gain nothing, but those who persist in practice will gain something.
24. Ten talkers are not worth one doer.
25. If you don’t climb the mountains, you won’t know the plains.
26. Only when you are sailing can you know that there are dangerous shoals, and only when you are traveling far will you know that the journey is difficult.
27. If you don’t do it yourself, you don’t know the difficulties.
28. Go abroad to learn the language, and go into the water to learn the nature of the water.
29. It is better to practice once than to sing in vain a thousand times.
30. It is better to practice than to hear and see.
31. There are also disadvantages to studying exclusively, so you must get in touch with the real society to make the books you read come alive. --Lu Xun (middle)
32. If you are not among them, you don’t know its taste.
33. It sounds difficult, but once you get used to it, it’s easy.
34. You can only know the depth of the water when you go down to the river, and you can see the mud on your legs only when you get out of the water.
35. One practical action is better than a dozen programs.
36. Only after eating Coptis chinensis can one realize the bitterness, and only after walking through the snow can one realize the coldness.
37. You don’t know how warm you are when you’re exposed to the sun, and you don’t know how cold it is when you don’t go to the snow.
38. How can a camel traveling in the desert know the crystal clear water of the lake?
39. If you don’t go into the water, how will you know there are fish?
40. Don’t do the right thing and don’t know the real situation.
41. Without leaving home, your mind is unclear.
42. Confused people do not know the value of intelligence; healthy people do not know the pain of illness.
43. The answers you find by yourself are like carvings on stone; the answers told by others are like records on sand.
44. Newcomers cannot touch the door.
45. See with your own eyes and listen with your own ears.
46. The more you sweat, the more you will understand.
47. Don’t be clumsy with your hands, don’t be clumsy with your feet, don’t be clumsy with your words, and don’t be clumsy with your thinking.
48. To know the bitterness of Coptis chinensis, try it yourself.
49. If you don’t touch your feet when you walk, how can you know that the road is bumpy?
50. Bold experiment is half the battle.
51. It is better to go through it once than to see it a thousand times.
52. How can you not recognize crabs if you often walk by the river?
53. You have to know it once.
54. Only after drinking from thousands of rivers can you travel in waves.
55. Only when you go down to the sea will you know how deep the water is, and when you go up the mountain, you will know that the mountain is difficult to walk.
56. If you don’t sleep in the quilt, you don’t know how wide the quilt is.
57. It takes three years to practice medicine, and three years to drive a horse to understand its nature.
58. Look at a thousand swords and you will know the weapon; taste a hundred herbs and you will know the medicine.
59. Seeing is better than hearing a hundred times, and practicing is worse than seeing.
60. Practice yourself and gain personal knowledge, repeat practice and gain deep knowledge, and expand practice and gain new knowledge.
61. The scholar does not come to the fields, but sees the wheat and turns it into leeks.
62. If you are familiar with the science of swimming, it is better to swim in the river.
63. If you don’t eat frozen fish, how can you know the taste of frozen fish?
64. You cannot fully understand the forest if you stand outside the forest.
65. Scholars talk about books, but butchers talk about pigs.
66. Wood cannot be penetrated without drilling, and people cannot understand without practice.
67. Only by doing everything yourself can you know whether there is anything.
68. It is better to do it once than to watch others a hundred times.
69. People who are familiar with water are good for rowing.
70. Only practice can overcome the errors of experience. --Baren (middle)
71. Practice is the golden key that can open the door to thought.
72. A knowledgeable person who does not practice is equivalent to a bee who does not make honey. --Saadi (Persia)
73. What you hear with your ears is not as good as your eyes, and what you see with your eyes is not as good as your feet.
74. One sight is worth less than a hundred hearings, and one practice is worth less than a hundred learnings.
75. Seeing is believing, and rumors may not be true.
76. If you don’t eat the mountain fruits, you won’t know the taste.
77. If you don’t sleep on the same bed, how do you know you will be exposed?
78. Action is the beginning of knowledge, and knowledge is the completion of action.
79. A person cannot learn to swim on land.
80. Others can only lead the way for you, but cannot walk for you.
81. You can’t catch big whales without going to the sea, and you can’t get the true scriptures without going to the Western Heaven.
82. When you first come to Lutang, you don’t know the depth.
83. People from the north don’t know the sea, and people from the south don’t know the snow.
84. No matter how big the talk, geniuses still cannot create things out of thin air.
85. No matter how many plans you have, it is better to implement them all at once; no matter how many dreams you have, it is better to take action at once.
86. Peel the bean and you will learn the two parts of the bean. Eating the pear will reveal the sour and sweet parts.
87. If you don’t watch the huge waves, how can you know the vast sea?
88. When a landlubber crosses a river, he cannot feel the depth.
89. Big eyes don’t mean you can see clearly.
90. The nest dweller predicts the wind, and the cave dweller predicts the rain.
91. If you don’t climb a mountain, you don’t know how high the sky is; if you don’t climb a deep valley, you don’t know how thick the earth is.
92. You can’t learn to swim just by looking at it, and you can’t grow crops by just talking.
93. The river knows the turtle’s life, and the wind knows the bird’s life.
94. You will know the sweetness and sourness by tasting them, and you will know them by walking far and near.
95. Only real life can learn, only real life can teach people, and only real life can produce social thoughts. -- Qu Qiubai (middle)
96. Children on the beach love the sea, and children in the mountains love the mountains.
97. Actions speak louder than words.
98. Houses facing the sun need to be warm first, and people near the water know how to punt.
99. If you want to know what is going on in the mountains, you must ask the woodcutter.
100. Those who have lived in Jianghu for a long time can recognize people passing by.
101. If you don’t climb famous mountains, you won’t know the heights of the Five Mountains. If you don’t swim the Yangtze River, you won’t know the dangers of the Three Gorges.
102. The more clearly you know, the more earnestly you practice; the more earnestly you practice, the more clearly you know. --Zhu Xi (Song Dynasty) Proverbs about true knowledge coming from practice
1. Knowledge requires repeated exploration, and the land requires hard work.
(Nepalese proverb)
2. A person who does not want to see is worse than a blind person; a person who does not want to listen is worse than a deaf person. (French proverb)
3. A bad pen is better than a good memory.
4. Hearing is false, seeing is true.
5. Fact is stranger than fiction.
6. Half-understanding ten arts is not as good as mastering one.
7. Understanding your own ignorance means you have gained something. (Latin American proverb)
8. Wisdom comes from being well-informed. (Arab proverb)
9. A day of a scholar is more valuable than a life of an ignorant person. (Arab proverb)
10. If you live on a slope for a long time, it is never too steep.
11. Learning is like driving a car to climb a mountain. If you don’t advance, you will retreat. (Japanese proverb)
12. What you learn in your youth will never be forgotten until your death.
13. People who don’t ask will always be with ignorance. (East African proverb)
14. Knowledge is stored in the ocean of humility. (Korean proverb)
15. Practice is the key to the treasure house of theory.
16. It is difficult to know after doing it. If you don’t do it hard, you will not know it.
17. Only by asking while learning can you become knowledgeable.
18. Speaking is not as good as being there, hearing is not as good as seeing.
19. Learn less from victory and more from failure.
20. Feathers make the peacock look various, and knowledge makes people smart and capable.
21. Don’t try to do whatever you want.
22. Countless grains of soil cross the endless ocean of learning. (Mongolian proverb)
23. What you get on paper will always be shallow. If you know it, you must do it
24. Knowledge has no bottom, and learning has no limit. (Mongolian proverb)
25. Practice brings true knowledge.
26. In general, there are only two ways to learn, which is to practice knowledge and practice.
27. Fetching water relies on well ropes, and learning relies on practice.
28. Genius lies in tempering.
29. Faith can move mountains.
30. The ears have no bottom and can be heard from morning to night. (African proverb)
31. When two people are of the same mind, they can cut through metal.
32. A scholar is more valuable than doing it, but not more valuable than knowing it.
33. Knowledge is more valuable than pure gold.
34. Knowledge is like spring water under the sand and gravel. The deeper you dig, the clearer the spring water becomes. (Danish proverb)
35. Chasing two rabbits fails.
36. Never leaving home, full of prejudice.
37. Thinking is arguing with yourself. (Spanish proverb)
38. If you are greedy and learn many skills, you will accomplish nothing.
39. One careful consideration is better than a hundred hasty actions. (Yugoslav proverb)
40. Haste makes waste.
41. If you don’t advance in learning, you will retreat.
42. Dancing with a sword is one thing, but fighting is another. (Korean proverb)
43. Whoever wants to know more must sleep less. (Armenian proverb)
44. Three slices of ginger in the morning is better than ginseng soup.
45. Whoever enjoys too much has no time to study. (French proverb)
46. Words are not supported by words, but facts are proof.
47. An ounce of knowledge, a hundred times the effort.
48. Send back water and accumulate mud; experience something and gain wisdom.
49. It is not difficult to say what you say, but it is difficult to practice what you say.
50. When running around, it is better to stay at home.
51. Children in the mountains are not afraid of wolves, and children in the city are not afraid of officials.
52. Read three hundred Tang poems by heart, and can recite them even if you can’t compose them.
53. Chopping firewood and going up the mountain, catching birds and going up the tree.
54. Only by forging iron can you become a blacksmith. (French proverb)
55. When chopping wood, chop off the little head, and ask the old man for directions.
56. Don’t think about speaking for three days, and don’t do anything for three years.
57. Thousands of words may not satisfy you, but a handful of running water can quench your thirst.
58. The mountain is climbed step by step, and the boat is rolled out one oar after another.
59. The more you exercise, the stronger your body becomes, and the more you use your brain, the smarter you become.
60. It is difficult to know the world without having your feet out.
61. Books that are kept but not read are like waste paper. (British proverb)
62. A big carp swimming in the lake is not as good as a small crucian carp on the table.
63. There is no way to know it.
64. You have to learn everything from scratch.
65. Don’t be satisfied no matter how profound your knowledge is, and don’t ignore your mistakes no matter how small they are. (Mongolian proverb)