Quotes about Inexperience
The genius of lyric poetry is the genius of inexperience.
- Milan Kundera
what became abundantly clear as soon as Sarah Palin stepped into the spotlight was that on just about every subject relevant to governing the country she had absolutely no idea what the hell she was talking about.
- Barack Obama
That's high school for you, a bevy of people unfit for adult life encounters in any form.
- Barbara Kingsolver
A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing. If you get past that and grown, it's easiest to forget about the misery and pretend you knew all along what you were doing.
- Barbara Kingsolver
What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of business about which they know nothing and think they know a great deal.
- Florence Nightingale
To young, inexperienced minds there seems to be a kind of fatal charm about the vague, the distant, and the mysterious.
- Booker T. Washington
Their youngness is terrifying. How could I have put myself into the hands of such inexperience?
- Margaret Atwood
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
- George Bernard Shaw
You watch teenage girls and feel shivers up and down your arms -- those poor creatures don't know the first thing about time or agony or the price they're going to have to pay for just about everything.
- Alice Hoffman
She was inexperienced enough to assume what they had was love because she wanted him, and want can be a hundred times stronger than need, and a thousand times stronger than common sense.
- Alice Hoffman
The young generally are incapable of making hard decisions unless those decisions are associated with immediate violence and the consequent sharp flow of adrenalin
- Frank Herbert
I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
- Ted Deutch