Proverbs

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A proverb is something that is rhetorical, and means something deeper than what it says. Some proverbs include:

• "Love conquers all" - Love can transcend all difficulties and problems
• "The heart that loves is always young" - Love keeps a person mentally sharp and devoted
• "Desperate times call for desperate measures" - More difficult problems need more complex solutions.
• "Everyone is a thief in his own craft"
• "You can take a horse to water, but you can't force it to drink" - A stubborn person will not change his mind to do something just because it it put in front of him.
• "Blood is thicker than water"- Family connections are worth more than friendship.
• "The early birds catches the worm" - Advantage goes to the first person who arrives.
• "Actions speak louder than words" - A person's will and intent are better understood by what he does (which is an honest historical account) than his words (which may be empty).
• "All's well that ends well" - A successful resolution makes the previous circumstances irrelevant.
• "April showers bring May flowers" - What seems undesirable today brings positive outcomes later. Also there is the literal meaning.
• "Beggars can't be choosers" - When you don't have much, take what you are given.
• "Better late than never" - It's better for someone to show up late or in less than perfect condition than to just avoid a situation.
• "Better safe than sorry" - Take caution.
• "Truth is stranger than fiction" - Literal meaning. Real history is very odd.
• "Whatever will be, will be" - Don't plan for the future, but adapt as it comes.
• "Where there's a will, there's a way" - If you persevere, you can achieve.
• "One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel" - One bad person in a group spoils how others see the group.
• "Barking dogs seldom bite" - People who make a lot of noise are usually full of fluff.
• "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" - Do not betray a woman because they can be vindictive.
• "A penny saved is a penny earned" - Not spending preserves more money for future use.
• "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" - Handle money well.
• "Haste makes waste" - Doing things quickly often results in inadequacy.
• "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" - Having useful and tangible things is worth much more than things beyond your grasp.
• "Cleanliness is next to Godliness"

  "Too many cooks spoil the broth" or "Too many cooks in the kitchen"

  "Actions speak louder than words"

  "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

• "Beauty is only skin deep."
• "Children should be seen and not heard"
• "An apple a day keeps the doctor away"
• "Absence makes the heart grow fonder"
• "Out of sight, out of mind"
• "The way to a man's heart is through his stomach"
• "Cold hands, warm heart"

  "Make hay while the sun shines"

• "Never put off until tomorrow what can be done today"
• "He who hesitates is lost"
• "A watched pot never boils"
• "Many hands make light work"

  "A stitch in time saves nine"

• "A leopard never changes its spots"
• "A rolling stone does not gather moss"
• "Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises"
• "Contentment makes the poor men rich while discontentment makes the rich men poor"
• "Better face a danger once than be always in fear"
• "Better bread and water in peace than cake and ale in fear"
• "You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me."

I think that it means if you have doubt about something then you strive to find the truth by seeking more knowledge.

In other words, when you have doubt you do not accept a statement as truth. If you do not accept it as truth, you may try to find the truth in learning more about it.

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I believe it means that we could never be sure of the accuracy of uncontested knowledge. When we doubt knowledge we know it is under constant scrutiny and therefore we can assure its accuracy.

FOR EXAMPLE:

Einstein has/had many theories that, once established, seemed so brilliant that they remained uncontested however once someone DOUBTED the validity of his claims they were contested and in some cases proved false.

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I agree to somewhat with the previous statement; however the proverb is claiming "doubt is the key to knowledge," all knowledge, not just uncontested knowledge. For many years, the sun was thought to be revolving around the earth, that was not uncontested knowledge for the time. Many scientists had to have debated and challenged that for a long time, and they came to believe it as common fact. It was not until new developments in technology and methods of thought, that people began to doubt the claim and to re-challenge the claim.

Even today, scientists do not doubt necessarily because the results are inaccurate, but because they want to make sure than results are accurate. It does not hurt to look over the results again because a few things can happen: the results are correct thus reaffirming them, the results are incorrect and brings to light a missed variable, the results are correct but going over them brought something else to there attention that warrants investigation. Essentially seeking knowledge is: doubting what you know is all that there is to know.

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I use history as an example. We have to be critical to anything that is written before, even if it just one day or 2000 years. Some historians use different angles or perspective when writing a bout a historic event, do they do this in order to gain from this. One example; England, the golden age 16th century. Everything was flourishing according to one historian but there were also severe suffering for the middle and lower class people of England, not to mention the countries they colonized.

However, in the natural sciences we have 95% probability of something being true. If we begin doubting too a larger extent it can actual hinder our knowledge.

Proverbs portrays her as a benign and powerful spirit, rather than as the earlier goddesses like Asherah, although verse 8:23-31 says that Wisdom was with God from the very beginning, from time everlasting.