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Quotes About Maturity

No one knows, the heart of a child, how it grows until it is too late.
~ Hilda Doolittle
What I'm now discovering - and I'm now in another decade - is that the older I get the more I have my self knowledge which makes me feel more sexy.
~ Kim Cattrall
Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.
~ John Piper
To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.
~ Hermann Hesse
I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.
~ Kristin Scott Thomas
Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
~ John Fowles
I'm old and my knowledge is strictly horizontal.
~ Greg Proops
I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever.
~ Ameen Rihani
At the age of 18 I don't think that I thought very differently than I did at the age of 25. I think we instinctively have the knowledge and adapt the knowledge we need.
~ J. P. Donleavy
for whenever men are right they are not young
~ E.E. Cummings, 22 and 50 Poems
Who is old enough to ask, is old enough to know.
~ Sharon Lee, Necessity's Child
Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe.
~ Lord Chesterfield
The downside of aging is a slower metabolism and achy joints.The upside is a knowledge of self that prevents one from behaving like a baboon.
~ Dov Davidoff
Experience gives meaning to knowledge.
~ Paul Bamikole
Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself-in fact till it does that it hardly is experience.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
We should live and learn but by the time we've learned it's too late to live.
~ Carolyn Wells
1. Reading becomes knowledge.2. Applying knowledge becomes experience.Most people have done 1 but they forget 2. These people blow too much without effective result.
~ CycDemo
Experience is based on knowledge, not by years
~ Sanjeev Beekeeper
Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
~ Idries Shah, Reflections
The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.
~ Andrew Carnegie
Leaders grow; they are not made.
~ Peter Drucker
Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.
~ Winston Churchill
While personal maturity may mean being able to see beyond yourself, leadership maturity means considering others before yourself.
~ John C. Maxwell