It is to them I look, to the rising generation, and not to the one now in power, for these great reformations i. e. , emancipation of slaves and settlement of the Virginia constitution on a firmer and more permanent basis.
Beware of ignorance when in motion; look out for inexperience when in action, and beware of the majority when mentally poisoned with misinformation, for collective ignorance does not become wisdom.
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.
They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes.
I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.
We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.
I won't hold my opponent's youth and inexperience against him.
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.
Inexperience is an asset. Embrace it.
Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
When you see Liana [Liberato], who at the time was 14, there is an inexperience and innocence that you can't act and you can't fake.
But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?
If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist.
One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.
I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.
I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance of self- government, which we have acquired and shaped for them.
The best way to get past doubt and inexperience is simply action.
