“One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.”
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Famous Chinua Achebe Quotes
“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.”
“A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.”
“A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.”
Source: A Man of the People
“My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered”
Source: Arrow of God
“A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.”
Source: Arrow of God
“What a man does not know is greater than he.”
Source: Arrow of God
Source: Arrow of God
“When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?”
Source: Arrow of God
“He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.”
Source: Arrow of God
“The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.”
Source: Arrow of God
“Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache”
Source: The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart; Arrow of God; No Longer at Ease