Inexperience Quotes:

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.

- A. J. Liebling

source: A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.20, Macmillan

topic: Inexperience, Cynicism

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

topic: Jobs, Children, Inexperience

One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

- David A. Bednar

topic: Spiritual, Maturity, Inexperience, Spiritual Maturity

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

- Herbert V. Prochnow

topic: Men, Inexperience, Impossible, Older Man

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

- Joseph Addison

topic: Ignorance, Self, Inexperience, Self Sufficiency, Sufficiency

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

- Mercedes Lackey

topic: Ignorance, Prejudice, Inexperience

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

- Naum Gabo

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

topic: Artist, Sculpture, Inexperience

Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.

- Tina Fey

topic: Jobs, Inexperience, Virtue, Bossypants

Inexperience is an asset. Embrace it.

- Wendy Kopp

topic: Inexperience, Embrace, Assets

Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.

- William Feather

topic: Successful, Needs, Inexperience, Liability

I often hear from new graduates that it's better to wait until you have more experience.... But I'm a big believer in the power of inexperience.... The world needs you before you stop asking naive questions and while you have the time to understand the true nature of the complex problems we face and take them on.

- Wendy Kopp

topic: Waiting, Faces, Inexperience, Complex Problems

I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.

- Charles Lindbergh

topic: Glasses, Safety, Inexperience, Magnifying Glass

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

- Charlotte Bronte

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

topic: Inexperience, Youth, Blind, Headstrong

Such is the condition of life that something is always wanting to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon blasted by rashness and negligence, and great designs which are defeated by inexperience. In age, we have knowledge and prudence, without spirit to exert, or motives to prompt them; we are able to plan schemes, and regulate measures, but have not time remaining to bring them to completion.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

topic: Design, Age, Inexperience, Rashness, Great Design

I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience.

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

source: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

topic: Regret, Arrogance, Inexperience, Regret Nothing

I leave the world and its affairs to the young and energetic, and resign myself to their care, of whom I have endeavored to take care when young.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.180

topic: Care, Inexperience, World

Inexperience because of (President Barack) Obama's inexperience.Look that would be one of the challenges.

- John McCain

source: Source: www.cnn.com

topic: Challenges, President, Inexperience

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

topic: Ignorance, America, Inexperience

I am about to discuss the disease called 'sacred'. It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred that other diseases, but has a natural cause, and its supposed divine origin is due to men's inexperience, and to their wonder at its peculiar character.

- Hippocrates

source: Hippocrates (1967). “Hippocrates”

topic: Character, Men, Inexperience

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

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Inexperience, Opponents, Youth

The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.

- Samuel Johnson

source: Samuel Johnson (1800). “The Idler: With Additional Essays”, p.85

topic: Errors, Inexperience, Inability

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

- Natalie Portman

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

topic: Inexperience, Use, Accepting, Lack Of Knowledge

Inexperience loves to preach.

- Nikos Kazantzakis

topic: Inexperience