Knowing One's Limitations
Wisdom includes knowing what you don't know. Overconfidence leads to failure; humility leads to growth.
Wisdom includes knowing what you don't know. Overconfidence leads to failure; humility leads to growth.
The bird that does not know its size swallows a fruit that kills it. Know yourself.
Pan-African Proverbs
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- What African wisdom says about failure
The bird that does not know its size swallows a fruit that kills it. This is a diagnosis rather than a discouragement: the failure is traced to a misjudged ratio between the attempt and the self, so the repair is better self-knowledge, not smaller ambition.