Hence a young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in li...fe, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end aimed at is not knowledge but action.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, bu...t its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced pe...ople endeavour to do, he drowns.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In naturally strong-minded men, however young and inexperienced in some things, those great and sudden emergencies, which but conf...ound the timid and the weak, only serve to call forth all their generous latentness, and teach them, as by inspiration, extraordinary maxims of conduct, whose counterpart, in other men, is only the result of a long, variously-tried and pains-taking life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An inexperienced heraldist resembles a medieval traveler who brings back from the East the faunal fantasies influenced by the dome...stic bestiary he possessed all along rather than by the results of direct zoological exploration.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. A meteor makes a striking effect for a moment. You look up and cry... "There!" and it is gone forever. Planets and wandering stars last a much longer time. They often outshine the fixed stars and are confounded by them by the inexperienced; but this only because they are near. It is not long before they must yield their place; nay, the light they give is reflected only, and the sphere of their influence is confined to their orbit--their contemporaries. Their path is one of change and movement, and with the circuit of a few years their tale is told. Fixed stars are the only ones that are constant; their position in the firmament is secure; they shine with a light of their own; their effect today is the same as it was yesterday, because, having no parallax, their appearance does not alter with a difference in our standpoint. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O Bee, yoked with greed... for a drink of sap, the jasmine bud hasn't even opened its petals in the least, and yet you rub against it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »