Charlotte Bronte
Novelist, Poet
"But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?"
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Inexperience
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Natalie Portman
Actress, Director, Producer
"Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset."
Nikos Kazantzakis
Novelist, Playwright
"Inexperience loves to preach."
Ronald Reagan
Politician, Actor
"I won't hold my opponent's youth and inexperience against him."
Michel de Montaigne
Philosopher, Writer
"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."
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"The heart is forever inexperienced."
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"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."
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"The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature."
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"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."
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