Quotes About Maturity

Jenny decided that all manifestations of her innocence were futile and appeared defensive.

In the company of grown women among whom Jack remembered being a little boy, he was again a child.

The more I have known the more have I lov'd.

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, and all the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily taste in going over the following pages.

It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.

Sixteen is the key and crucial and natural age for a human being to be, and people of all other ages are ranged in an orderly manner ahead of and behind you as a harmonious setting for the sixteen-year-olds of this world.

If only Americans "could have their toys taken away from them, be spanked, educated and made to grow up, it might be worthwhile to act as a guardian for their foreign interests in the meantime. But when one can do none of these things?" So

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

There may be areas in which our outer person thinks we have forgiven others—especially those most formative to us in childhood—but counsel and prayer reveal that such forgiveness is far from complete. It may be that coping mechanisms from childhood are still causing us to act and react in childish ways (see 1 Corinthians 13:11). Or bitter roots may have sprung back to life, causing us to defile others and reap harmful consequences that we cannot, without counsel, even explain.

The aim of inner healing is to change individuals—and indeed, the entire Body of Christ—into "a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ" (Ephesians 4:13).

Growth inside fuels growth outside.

Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.

When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.

Philosophy is the education of grown-ups.

Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience.

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

People think of education as something they can finish.

Cadets can neither be treated as schoolboys or soldiers.

Why can't we repeat 8th grace five times and call that a high school education?

To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!

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

I thought i had been educated well enough until i left college.

I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as I'm getting older, I'm getting much more open about all that.