African Proverbs and Sayings - Page 2

In Nigerian culture, wisdom is not measured by intelligence alone, but by the ability to live rightly, speak carefully, and act with foresight. Folly, in contrast, is viewed as blindness of the heart, ignoring truth, advice, or experience. Across Nigeria’s many ethnic traditions, proverbs about wisdom and folly illuminate the contrast between the thoughtful and the reckless, teaching that wisdom