And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.
Ian McEwanTag: life inexperience
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
Brooks AtkinsonTag: experience perspective close-mindedness inexperience point-of-view open-mindeness
It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.
Jon KrakauerTag: youth entitlement inexperience krakauer mccandless naivete
Rookies talk rubbish.
Toba BetaTag: inexperience
Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
Mercedes LackeyTag: prejudice ignorance inexperience amberdrake mercedes-lackey
But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory--humorous, poignant, humane allegory--disclosing the metamorphosis of life itself, in which man moves from confident inexperience through the bitterness of experience, toward the rueful wisdom of self-knowledge.
Robertson DaviesTag: wisdom life music self-knowledge inexperience
Sam, you need experts on this, and I love you, but—”
“I’m so new I have that new-car smell about me?
Tag: inexperience
Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.
A.J. LieblingTag: cynicism shame inexperience shamefaced
Optimists are usually inexperienced.
Wayne Gerard TrotmanTag: wisdom optimism optimists inexperience optimistic naivete chi-ro-jin
No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. Collective thought is stupid because it's collective. Nothing passes into the realm of the collective without leaving at the border--like a toll--most of the intelligence it contained.
In youth we're twofold. Our innate intelligence, which may be considerable, coexists with the stupidity of our inexperience, which forms a second, lesser intelligence. Only later on do the two unite. That's why youth always blunders - not because of its inexperience, but because of its non-unity.
Today the only course left for the man of superior intelligence is abdication.
Tag: intelligence stupidity youth inexperience abdication collective-thought
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