Quotes About Maturity

Sixteen years I've pounded my head against the mentality of America, which...I'd say it's about an 8th grade emotional level.

Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When they see wickedness, they walk away.

Older guys have too much emotional baggage. They've already lived their lives.

Stop thinking like Alice in Wonderland, Celia told herself sternly. You're a grown-up, it's no use shutting your eyes, wishing things would happen

Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.

To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.

Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

As you gain experience, you mature as an individual, and along with that comes the confidence that you have the ability to solve problems.

Strangest thing is, you learn the value of experience only with experience

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.

I have the benefit of experience which tells me that sulking solves nothing

What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.