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Thought Provoking Quotes by Chinua Achebe
- One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought…
- People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your…
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
- The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
- My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered
- It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a…
- A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.
- What a man does not know is greater than he.
- In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but…
- When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?
- He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
- The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
- Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
- If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
- Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!
- Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something…
More Thought Provoking Quotes
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. — Chinua Achebe
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when… — Chinua Achebe
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. — Chinua Achebe
- You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. — Marcus Aurelius
- A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. — Henry Ward Beecher
- People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. — Saul Bellow
- Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. — Arnold Bennett
- Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to… — Isaiah Berlin
- Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. — Ambrose Bierce