"The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience."
― Chinua Achebe
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Experience
― Chinua Achebe
More From Chinua Achebe
- "When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day."
- "My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel."
- "Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively."
More In Experience
- "I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit."― John le Carre
- "I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It’s kind of a life-changing experience. But it can’t get better than this for any actor – this is like an opera."― Javier Bardem
- "There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order."― William E. Gladstone