Quotes About Maturity

Foolish people can never realize that the more they ignore a person who is truly nice, the more he would score and grow wise.

Most grow old with ages, but some attain age with wisdom

The maturity or sanity is to learn and listen about Charity, Honesty, Humanity, Loyalty, Originality, Simplicity and other virtuous quality only from a person who has neither the money or property in a huge quantity nor ever getting the support of the majority of people in own group or party.

The people's life journey traverses from being child to being wild; the privilege is not in growing old but being able to hold the infant's nature for as many days and as much as a person can in oneself.

always remember that it is progress, not perfection, you should be looking for.

She looked to be maybe fifteen, give or take a year or two; still somewhere in that nether realm between childhood and womanhood. Her hair, to judge by the few unsoiled strands he could see, was an earthy brown, and her eyes shone with a blue-green hue so liquid that he almost expected to see waves. A small, ever-so-slightly upturned nose sat in the center of a slender face.

Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives.

I am 73 years old. I've seen everything. I've met the kings, the queens, the presidents, I've been around the world. I have one thing that I would like to do: to try to reach peace.

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." Erich Fromm

Traindu-si varsta singur si salbatic.

The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

The old are in a second childhood.

Old men are children for a second time.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

Children ... are unripe and imperfect; their virtues, therefore, are to be considered not merely as relative to their actual state, but principally in reference to that maturity and perfection to which nature has destined them.

Don't listen when they scoff That you are too old and I am young, For I am old enough to know better And you are young enough not to care.

Just as the social novel attains its perfection with Balzac, the Bildungsroman with Flaubert, the picaresque novel with Dickens, so the psychological novel enters the phase of its full maturity with Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.

Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult

Crystallized intelligence, relying as it does on a stock of knowledge, tends to increase with age through one's forties, fifties, and sixties—and does not diminish until quite late in life, if at all.

The idea of moving to instruction later in life is a theme one finds in the great wisdom literatures from East to West.

They need not just whiz-bang ideas but actual wisdom that only comes with years in the school of hard knocks.

As we age, we shouldn't accumulate more to represent ourselves but rather strip things away to find our true selves—and thus, to find our second curve.

And what I have presented here shows that when it comes to faith, many people do change with age.