Inexperience Quotes

• I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Issues, Political

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “The uncommon wisdom of Ronald Reagan: a portrait in his own words”

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• In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, 4th Of July, America

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1024, GENERAL PRESS

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• Inexperience is what makes a young man do what an older man says is impossible.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Men, Impossible, Young

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• Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Teacher, Appreciation, Mistake

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• The best way to get past doubt and inexperience is simply action.

  Robert Herjavec

  Past, Doubt, Way

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• But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Youth, Blind, Headstrong

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.

  Natalie Portman

  Use, Accepting, Assets

  "Portman Natalie Portman tells Harvard graduates: 'Make your inexperience an asset'". www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2015.

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• Inexperience loves to preach.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

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• Beware of ignorance when in motion; look out for inexperience when in action, and beware of the majority when mentally poisoned with misinformation, for collective ignorance does not become wisdom.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Ignorance, Majority, Doe

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• Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? “I’m not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I’m just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I’d like to cut your chest open.” The crowd cheers.

  Tina Fey

  Dream, Witty, Jobs

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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• I won't hold my opponent's youth and inexperience against him.

  Ronald Reagan

  Opponents, Youth

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• I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Thinking, Joy, Beginners

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• We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we've gained from the previous one. We leave childhood without knowing what youth is, we marry without knowing what it is to be married, and even when we enter old age, we don't know what it is we're heading for: the old are innocent children innocent of thier old age. In that sense, man's world is the planet of inexperience.

  Milan Kundera

  Children, Men, Knowing

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• We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ignorance, America, Example

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• If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist.

  Naum Gabo

  Artist, Sculpture, Painting

  Naum Gabo (2000). “Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews”

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• Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Funny, Stupid, Men

  Andrea Dworkin (2009). “Intercourse”, p.180, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

  Joseph Addison

  Ignorance, Self, Prejudice

  Joseph Addison (1853). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.139

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• A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Jobs, Children, Overcoming

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Player, Chess, Requirements

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• Aesthetic racism is almost always a sign of inexperience. Those who have not made their way far enough into the world of amorous delights judge women only by what can be seen. But those who really know women understand that the eye reveals only a minute fraction of what a woman can offer us. When God bade mankind be fruitful and multiply, Doctor, He was thinking of the ugly as well as of the beautiful. I am convinced I might add, that the aesthetic criterion does not come from God but from the devil. In paradise no distinction was made between ugliness and beauty.

  Milan Kundera

  Beautiful, Eye, Thinking

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• Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Ignorance, Overcoming, Prejudice

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• From the first days of my career as an entrepreneur, I have always used my own and my team's lack of experience to our advantage. In fact, at our first venture, Student magazine, we used our newcomer status to secure great interviews and generate publicity - people were excited about our new project and wanted to get involved. Our inexperience fed our restless enthusiasm for trying new things, which became part of our core mission.

  Richard Branson

  Team, Careers, People

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• Do not be angry with an ungrateful person; probably they are confused or inexperienced.

  Chico Xavier

  Confused, Ungrateful, Persons

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• It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Failure, Ignorance, Character

  Eleanor Perenyi (2010). “Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden”, p.65, Modern Library

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• It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice

  Colleen McCullough

  Character, Voice, Giving

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