Quotes About Maturity

There is no fool to the old fool.

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

La edad proporciona otras interpretaciones, por supuesto. Las venas se endurecen, lo mismo que las opiniones.

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thicksighted: thence proceeds mawkishness, and the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily taste in going over the following pages.

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Little hooligans showing off is okay when they do it away from us, but we don't need that kind of behaviour. You have to have standards. Would have done the same when I was their age, but I'm not. Now is now. There's no room for nostalgia.

After so many years wondering what kind of person you were going to become one day, somewhere you forgot that this question actually has an answer, and that 'one day' will eventually arrive. If it hasn't already.

To thrive at sea, you must be responsible for who you are, not who you want to be.

You've got that look about you, like you've seen more than you should have.

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

Experience is a great teacher.

The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.

Children don't have hearts yet, not really. They haven't been hurt into the need for one.

In the place called Adulthood there are no Cheshire Cats... for they can't endure the suffering of the place.

We need theology in addition to Scripture because God has authorized teaching in the church, and because we need that teaching to mature in the faith.

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

Maturity beings to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

I feel that my best work is ahead of me. I am embarrassed to look at my earlier writing now.

Ya??n?z ilerledikçe bütün ak?l hocalar? çekip gidiyor... ...Çünkü art?k onlara ihtiyac?n?z olmuyor.

We had enough years in front of us to be serious and grown-up and respectable. Why rush it? But on the other hand we always complained when teachers and other adults treated us as kids. In fact there was nothing that annoyed me more. So it was a frustrating situation. What we needed was a two-sided badge that said 'Mature' on one side and 'Childish' on the other. Then at any moment we could turn it to whatever side we felt like being and the adults could treat us accordingly.

What we needed was a two-sided badge that said 'Mature' on one side and 'Childish' on the other. Then at any moment we could turn it to whatever side we felt like being and the adults could treat us accordingly.

At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.