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It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. (Achebe Chinua)
The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it --this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience. (Achebe Chinua)
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. (Achebe Chinua)
Deep experience is never peaceful. (Achebe Chinua)
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If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser. (Achebe Chinua)
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. (Achebe Chinua)
It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet. (Achebe Chinua)
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it. (Achebe Chinua)
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. (Achebe Chinua)
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. (Achebe Chinua)
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time. (Achebe Chinua)
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience. (Achebe Chinua)
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. (Achebe Chinua)
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. (Achebe Chinua)
Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around. (Achebe Chinua)
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior. (Achebe Chinua)
The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum. (Achebe Chinua)
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. (Achebe Chinua)
A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow. (Achebe Chinua)
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience. (Achebe Chinua)
Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end. (Achebe Chinua)
Fooled once shame on you, fooled twice shame on me. (Achebe Chinua)
Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. (Achebe Chinua)
A burnt child dreads the fire. (Achebe Chinua)
I know by my own pot how the others boil. (Achebe Chinua)
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