Arab Proverb Quotes
What’s written remains, though a writer is buried beneath the ground.
Although the Bedouin culture was and is primarily an oral culture, in recent generations schools were introduced into society along with book learning. This proverb is of relatively late origin and reflects the Bedouin tradition of reducing all wisdom to oral proverbs—even wisdom about the relative weakness or oral communications. See {616459} for the more traditional view of the transfer of knowledge.
Arab Proverb, [Bedouin]
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This is the old, traditional proverb that expresses a truth of all oral cultures. See {616490} for a newer proverb on knowledge.
Unlike most men of his time, he was secretive and wrote very little.
