Quotes About Maturity

Actually I feel I'm a better player; more mentally. I guess you get better with age people say. You have a lot more wisdom.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.

I'm trying to grow older with wisdom.

Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.

Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom.

A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.

It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.

The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y

Fear is a state of nervousness only fit for children

God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days.

Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.