What did Chinua Achebe mean by: The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. - Chinua Achebe Novelist · Nigeria Copy
+ A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Chinua Achebe, 0 - Chinua Achebe Novelist · Nigeria
+ A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Chinua Achebe, Reality, 0 - Chinua Achebe Novelist · Nigeria
+ When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Chinua Achebe, Mad, Naked, 0 - Chinua Achebe Novelist · Nigeria
+ When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Chinua Achebe, Coward, Fight, 0 - Chinua Achebe Novelist · Nigeria
+ A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Chinua Achebe, Coward, Fight, Running, 0 - Chinua Achebe Novelist · Nigeria
+ Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Chinua Achebe, Lying, 0 - Chinua Achebe Novelist · Nigeria
+ The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Chinua Achebe, Different, 0 - Chinua Achebe Novelist · Nigeria
+ A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Chinua Achebe, Hands, 0 - Chinua Achebe Novelist · Nigeria
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
