Chinua Achebe Quotes

As an individual, I've learnt a lot about life - some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.

Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn.

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.

I learned from my past.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

Experience is a great teacher.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

People are divided into two classes - those who profit by experience and those who do not. The unfortunate part of it all is that the latter class is by far the larger of the two.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

Experience can be a great teacher.

I have learnt a lot from my past experience.

Everything's a learning experience.

Every person learns with time and experience.

I have always felt that there is no substitute of experience.

If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.