Top 25 Inexperience Quotes of 31 - Page 2

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.

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

Care, Inexperience, World

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

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

Samuel Johnson

Errors, Inexperience, Inability

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

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

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Regret, Arrogance, Inexperience

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

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

Design, Age, Inexperience