Quote by Chinua Achebe
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn not

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

Other quotes by Chinua Achebe

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you dont always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse! – Chinua Achebe

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Government
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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. – Chinua Achebe

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teacher
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, thats the time to do something about it, not when its around your neck. – Chinua Achebe

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Time
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No one ever pretended that shopping for anything is a rational experience. If it were, would there be Fluffernutter? Laceless sneakers? Porkpie hats? Would the Chia Pet even exist? – Jeffrey Kluger

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Experience

I dont think as a creator that I could create an experience that truly feels interactive if you dont have something to hold in your hand, if you dont have something like force feedback that you can feel from the controller. – Shigeru Miyamoto

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Experience

Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement. – Simon Bolivar

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Experience

Youre creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that its their experience, not yours. Ill never introduce a song and say, now this song is about my broken heart. – Diana Krall

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Experience

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Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change. – Stephen Covey

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I dont feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope. – Alexander Payne

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself. – Johann von Goethe

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Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it. – Maggie Gyllenhaal

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cool