What a man does not know is greater than he.
CHINUA ACHEBEA disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit — in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Women and music should not be dated.
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If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.
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A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own. If you don’t like what somebody says, say what it is you don’t like.
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The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
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And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.
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A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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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 his own stool.
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My weapon is literature.
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