Quotes About Maturity

When we're young, we think we know all there is to know. Then we grow older, and the more we learn, the more we realize how little we actually know.

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific.

But reality cannot be ignored; we must grow up.

When I was a child I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. Now I must seek in other realms.

The man contains—not the boy—but earlier men

You're an unusual person, she said. Bill didn't like you, but he never likes anything different. He's so—so prosaic. Don't you think that when a person gets older he should become—broadened in his outlook?

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things.

Quando você é louco, aprende a ficar calado.

The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you're better off not touching it until you're all grown up. I'm going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don't open it.

when you're young you do think that things last forever unfortunately they don't Lyra.

I love him so much, Will! she managed to whisper shakily. And he looked old! He looked hungry and old and sad... Is it all coming on to us now, Will? We can't rely on anyone else now, can we... It's just us. But we en't old enough yet. We're only young... We're too young... If poor Mr Scoresby's dead and Iorek's old... It's all coming on to us, what's got to be done.

by a scent of grown-upness, something disturbing but enticing at the same time: it was the smell of glamour.

In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees

Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!

It did not matter that the idea made no sense. Sabbath's sixty-four years of life had long ago released him from the falsity of sense.

Simple was never that simple. Still, the self-questioning did take some time to reach him. And if there's anything worse than self-questioning coming too early in life, it's self-questioning coming too late.

she was fifty-five and seared with hot flashes, and her daughter's was now the female form exuding the magnetic currents.

Aside from how I look, I act younger than I am, too." "That you can expect to get worse.

What a paradox. Well, you can only be young once, but you can be immature forever.

At a certain point, we're either gonna have to put away childish things and discipline ourself about how much time do I spend being passively entertained? And how much time do I spend doing stuff that actually isn't all that much fun minute by minute, but that builds certain muscles in me as a grown-up and a human being?

It is unimaginably hard to do this—to live consciously, adultly, day in and day out.

Two generations ago, historians wrote of European saints and Indian savages. In the last generation, too many scholars have been writing about Indian saints and European savages. The opportunity for our generation is to go beyond that calculus of saints and savages altogether, and write about both American Indians and Europeans with maturity, empathy, and understanding.

I love you, for God's sake. I still love you. I loved you more than anyone on earth. But I'll never trust you, after what happened. It's what Alice said. You'll never grow up. There is no peace in you.

Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.