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Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future. (Achebe Chinua)
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. (Achebe Chinua)
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. (Achebe Chinua)
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. (Achebe Chinua)
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience! (Achebe Chinua)
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. (Achebe Chinua)
All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience. (Achebe Chinua)
It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world (Achebe Chinua)
We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking to crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach. (Achebe Chinua)
Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair. (Achebe Chinua)
The rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries. (Achebe Chinua)
Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things. (Achebe Chinua)
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. (Achebe Chinua)
Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced. (Achebe Chinua)
Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience. (Achebe Chinua)
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. (Achebe Chinua)
Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else. (Achebe Chinua)
A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best. (Achebe Chinua)
Everyone has 20/20 hindsight (Achebe Chinua)
Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. (Achebe Chinua)
Experience is largely non-transferable. (Achebe Chinua)
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