Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
CHINUA ACHEBEAnd 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.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
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Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
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Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n’ani ji onwe ya: ‘He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.’
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
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Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
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I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that’s where the majority of the citizens are and that’s where the engine of of development has to be found.
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If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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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 have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
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Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.
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Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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