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Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object. (Achebe Chinua)
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. (Achebe Chinua)
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? (Achebe Chinua)
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds. (Achebe Chinua)
The more experiments you make the better. (Achebe Chinua)
I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am. (Achebe Chinua)
Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other. (Achebe Chinua)
My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers. (Achebe Chinua)
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. (Achebe Chinua)
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. (Achebe Chinua)
No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. (Achebe Chinua)
One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are. (Achebe Chinua)
Experience is a good school, but the fees are high. (Achebe Chinua)
Experience is the extract of suffering. (Achebe Chinua)
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well oiled in the closet, but unused. (Achebe Chinua)
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. (Achebe Chinua)
I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience. (Achebe Chinua)
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. (Achebe Chinua)
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. (Achebe Chinua)
Experience teaches only the teachable. (Achebe Chinua)
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. (Achebe Chinua)
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