Quotes About Maturity

Knowledge will reveal its value only when we use it to gain wisdom through experience.

Tact is an ability to live in the midst of ugliness without getting ugly.

Growing older is a precious commodity. Only a few can endure to achieve that distinguished distinction and quality.

Filthy language is used by people who don't have the maturity or intelligence to express themselves with better words.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

Behave like men, and not like witless sheep...

As we grow up, we are exposed to hate and greed and anger and jealousy and peanut brittle and all kinds of things, our subtly body erodes.

I consider jealousy a humiliating and degrading feeling, and I shall never allow myself to be influenced by it.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?

Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.

A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same with regard to kindness, which must grow into maturity.

My kindness is the old version of my life, I have grown up.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

I always hung around older dudes. I feel like I was more wise and I just had more knowledge of what was going on.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.