Ebitabo butiko: obutali bulungi butta.
“Books are like mushrooms: the bad ones kill.”
Not all knowledge is good knowledge; what a person chooses to read or believe can harm them if chosen poorly.
— Traditional Uganda Wisdom, Uganda
Source: Traditional Uganda proverb, public-domain oral tradition
More Proverbs from Uganda
A debt does not just go away.
Obligations and debts do not disappear on their own; they must eventually be settled.
Whoever is caught in the hole is the thief.
Whoever is caught red-handed is held responsible, whatever the deeper truth may be.
A crowd is bad for eating but good for work.
Sharing food among many leaves little for each person, but many hands make labor light.
Your own, even if bad, is better than your neighbor's, however good.
People naturally value what belongs to them over something better that belongs to someone else.
The owner of the work is never in a hurry to warm himself by the fire.
A person who truly bears responsibility for a task takes it seriously and does not rush off to comfort.
Two people can keep a secret, but three will let it out.
The more people who share a secret, the more likely it is to spread.