Translation:
Knowing too much is like being ignorant
Postproverbial:
Kũmenya mũno nĩ, kuuga nĩũthomaga mũn
Translation:
Knowing very much means that one reads a lot.
Comments:
p1 is poetic and dicourages people from being too inquisitive. The postproverbial choice of reading a lot introduces modernity in that knowledge is acquired through literacy [reading] which is learned in formal schooling in the contemporary society.
Language - Region:
gikuyu-kenya
Label:
knowledge
read