Chinua Achebe Quotes

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Chinua Achebe

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• All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

  

  Sallust
  • Friendship
  • Anger
  • Hatred

• First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • First

• I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Good
  • Trying

• Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Great
  • Business
  • Together

• Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • May
  • Through

• I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Career
  • Soldier
  • Been

• I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.

  

  Larry Bird
  • World
  • American
  • Mean

• Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • World
  • Reality

• You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Experience
  • You
  • Greek

• Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Islamic
  • Nations
  • Philippines

• In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Character
  • Army
  • United States

• My job is to help more people have jobs.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Job
  • Help

• More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Art
  • Interesting
  • More

• Healthy forests and wetlands stand sentry against the dangers of climate change, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it away in plants, root systems and soil.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Change
  • Healthy
  • Stand

• What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • World
  • Wind
  • Smoke

• Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Know
  • Years
  • Dangerous

• If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Freedom
  • Care
  • Injustice

• I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Wanted
  • Early
  • Figured

• I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.

  

  Claudette Colbert
  • Order
  • Breakfast
  • Egg

• When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.

  

  Peter Straub
  • Long
  • Book
  • Hand

• I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.

  

  F. Sionil José
  • Work
  • Truth
  • True

• Take Ernie Els. He plays in every country. You see his name everywhere. He's received in different parts of the world. It's a good experience.

  

  Peter Uihlein
  • World
  • Good
  • Different

• Depressions, local and larger strikes, boom times, wars, repressions, all impact a life as do epidemics such as AIDS and pollution that may take years off a person's life. We all, whether we like it or not and whether we acknowledge it or not, are impacted by the racial attitudes we carry within us, and experience in some form every time we turn on the television, the radio, go to a movie, read a magazine or a newspaper, or walk down the street.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Life
  • Time
  • May

• The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

  

  Chinua Achebe
  • Experience