yes, this sentiment is most often found among class players. Beginners are sufficiently weak that the 1st move advantage can lead to far more victories as white (development advantage compounds really well for the white pieces), and experts and masters are sufficiently strong that first move advantage begins to clearly manifest in game statistics.
Not too sure that made sense. Beginners should probably win or lose equally with either colour. Masters win more with white because they prefer playing with white and may put more work into it, on the theory that if they win with white, that holds the balance and any wins with black are a bonus. But you speak as if there's a forced win in chess!
what? at beginner level, white holds a big advantage, because its much easier for white to get an initiative that can blow the black player off the board. All the big knockouts at scholastic level, like 4 move checkmate, fried liver combo etc, happen with the white pieces, and too often black dooesnt know how to adequately defend agaisnt such initiative because they are novices!
your reasoning on master games is a common fallacy. Just because chess is a drawn game doesn not mean white does not have an advantage. By that chain of reasoning 1.e4 a5 is as good as 1.e4 e5. The latter is clearly superior. White's first move advantage is a real objective thing even if chess is a draw with best play. The fact, most main stream openings show a superior win percentage as white is further stastistical proof of this. It has almost nothing to do with psychology. Sure, masters prefer white, but its not because they prefer white that they score better, its because they score better than they prefer white! that's why getting white in tournaments is such a critical thing in super GM events.
although I like playing the Caro-Kann