Quotes About Maturity

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.

It's evolution, man. Eventually the student becomes the teacher.

The best teacher in life is experience.

Age doesn't matter, unless you are cheese.

The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.

Experience is the best teacher.

Experience is a thorough teacher.

Tengo más experiencia que los demás, he vivido algo que casi nadie conoce a mi edad

If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

That night Fay became a woman, making a secret of her pain, intent on saving her happiness with Albert, on showing wisdom and subtlety.

I am eleven years old, I know, and I am not serious enough. Last night I said to myself: tomorrow I will be good. Good? I wasn't any better than I was the day before. Now here is a new month, and I haven't yet thought out how to be more sensible, how to master my impulses and my temper. I am ashamed to be so undisciplined.

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality.

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

because then the sum of experiences, of suffering, of self-analysis and soul-struggle have mellowed the individual and he can aid because he speaks and moves out of a ripe, conscious wisdom—not through precepts, ideas, formulas.

When we're young we all waste so much time being reserved or embarrassed with our parents, resenting them or wishing they and we were entirely different people. This

When I was younger, I used to make resolutions which imagined were virtuous. I was less anxious to be what I was, than to become what I wished to be. Now, I am not far from thinking that in irresolution lies the secret of not growing old.

B?rbatul nu-i decât un copil care a îmb?trânit.

Older people make this mistake all the time with younger people, treating them as a finished product when in fact they are in process.

her first goal was 19. then she became 19, and she didnt die. it surprised her. nothing had ever surprised her like that.

He never reveals anything personal about himself, and he becomes enraged if I try to steer the conversation in that direction. So I don't. But if I were to speculate, I'd say that he's not just insane, he's still part child himself. He has three sides to him -- the child, the gentleman, and the lunatic.

kids marked by the special thinness that one has only once, the transparent thinness of early maturity, when, without knowing it, you are immortal. And completely permeable. When you can walk indifferently down the street with a lover because you have become that lover. Two small people without dislike of suspicion.

A child doesn't have to be a prodigy. The only thing that matters is that he should't become 'stuck' in childishness

A child doesn't have to be a prodigy. He has to be a child. The only thing that matters is that he shouldn't become 'stuck' in childishness.