The knowledge of the disease is half the cure.
Meaning: Identifying a problem precisely enables you to address it effectively rather than waste effort on wrong solutions.
Origin: Recorded in A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, an undated collection published in London by Whittaker & Co. around 1880 and credited to Thomas Preston. Its earlier history hasn't been traced.
More proverbs about Wisdom
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- An ounce of knowledge may be worth a pound of comfort. — Small, precise understanding often proves more valuable than soothing but empty reassuran…
- The lame goeth as far as the staggerer. — A slow, steady person reaches the destination as surely as one who moves erratically or w…
- After Lammas corn ripens as much by night as by day. — Grain's final ripening accelerates exponentially once the critical August threshold passe…
- On a dark night an owl would be glad of a lantern. — Even those naturally suited to darkness benefit from light when circumstances demand visi…
- The law is not the same at morning and night. — Justice depends on who applies it and when, revealing law's human inconsistency rather th…
From our tongue twisters
- 네가 그린 기린 그림은 못 그린 기린 그림이고 내가 그린 기린 그림은 잘 그린 기린 그림이다. (Nega geurin girin geurimeun mot geurin girin geurimigo, naega geurin girin geurimeun jal geurin girin geurimida.) — geurin, girin and geurim rotate through nearly the same syllables with only the vowel mov…
- 앞 집 팥죽은 붉은 팥 풋팥죽이고, 뒷집 콩죽은 햇콩 단콩 콩죽이다. (Ap jip patjugeun bulgeun pat put-patjugigo, dwitjip kongjugeun haetkong dankong kongjugida.) — Stacks Korean's aspirated p and k against the final consonants, so every word ends where…
- 저 분은 백 법학박사이고 이 분은 박 법학박사이다. (Jeo buneun Baek beopakbaksa igo, i buneun Bak beopakbaksa ida.) — Baek and Bak are a single vowel apart, and 법학박사 piles four stop consonants into one title.