29 Quotes About Inexperience

And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.

Supercomputer pioneer Seymour Cray used to deliberately hire for inexperience because it brought him people who "do not usually know what's supposed to be impossible.

He held out a shaky and worn hand and she met it with one of her young and inexperienced ones.

You can never make someone like something they don't like, but you can always help them to better understand it.

Perhaps this was a day of firsts. The day one dies, of course, is a first in any life.

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory--humorous, poignant, humane allegory--disclosing the metamorphosis of life itself, in which man moves from confident inexperience through the bitterness of experience, toward the rueful wisdom of self-knowledge.