Inexperienced Quotes
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I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
— 1909 They and I, ch.11.
He found that a fork in his inexperienced hand was an instrument of chase rather than capture.
— 1905 Kipps, bk.2, ch.7.
I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
jerome k. jerome— They and I (1909), Ch. 2
It is always amazing to see how wide a spectrum of results can be obtained from replicating an identical negotiation with different principal actors; it makes no difference whether there subjects are inexperienced or whether they are senior executives and young presidents of business firms. That is an important lesson to be learned here.
howard raiffa— Part II, Chapter 7, Acquisitions and Mergers, p. 94
The uniform of polish uhlan makes even the youngest, inexperienced boy looks like he's made from steel.
maynard owen williams— National Geographic, august 1926
It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted.
charlotte brontë— Jane (Ch. 11)
I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.
frances burney— Evelina (1778)
An awkward consequence of heightening experience when one is inexperienced, of self-transcendence when one has not much world to lose, is that afterward one cannot be sure that one was somewhere or had newly experienced anything. If you aren’t much in the world, how do you know you are “out of this world”?
paul goodman— p. 183 (Growing Up Absurd (1956))
It is always amazing to see how wide a spectrum of results can be obtained from replicating an identical negotiation with different principal actors; it makes no difference whether there subjects are inexperienced or whether they are senior executives and young presidents of business firms. That is an important lesson to be learned here.
— Howard Raiffa (1982) The Art and Science of Negotiation. Part II, Chapter 7, Acquisitions and Mergers, p. 94
A young man is not an appropriate hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life.
— Aristotle, in Jonathan Lear Aristotle: The Desire to Understand, Cambridge University Press, 11 February 1988159 p.159
Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue ; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption .
— Samuel Johnson in: George Crabb English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order, J. & J. Harper, 1826, p.271
