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“ തന്നെത്താനറിയാഞ്ഞാൽ പിന്നെത്താനറിയും”
English Translation:
If you refuse to recognize your limits now, you will learn them later through bitter experience. (If you lack self-awareness voluntarily, public defeat and painful consequences will forcefully instruct you.)

— Malayalam

Related Mantras

“ പൂച്ചക്കു അറിവേറെവെക്കെണമൊ”
English Translation:
Does a cat need lessons in cunning? (Natural hunters and born opportunists require no schooling in stealth or sly instincts.)

“ എള്ളു ചോരുന്നതു കാണും, തേങ്ങാചോരുന്നതറികയില്ല”
English Translation:
Spotting a sesame seed slipping through, yet blind to whole coconuts falling away. (Straining at a gnat while swallowing a camel; fretting over petty leaks while oblivious to colossal losses.)

“ ഉഴിഞ്ഞെറിവാൻ നെല്ലുമരിയുമുണ്ടെങ്കിൽ കണ്ടുപിടിപ്പാൻ ബാധയുമുണ്ടു”
English Translation:
If you have ample rice to toss away on exorcisms, a demon will easily be found. (If you display resources to squander on superstition, opportunists will invent troubles to fleece you.)