Quotes About Maturity

Experience is the extract of suffering.

He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary.

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.

Every experience that you go through kinda shapes who you are.

I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.

I guess that's the upside of not being young anymore... You know from experience that the struggle always leads, in some way, to something better.

What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.

It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females.

Alas! How enthusiasm decreases, as our experience increases!

In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.

Experience is necessary for us to grow.

Experience is a great spoiler of pleasures.

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.

The longer my career has gone, the more I seem to score... It's experience and age and knowing where the ball's going to be.

My experience in TV is that it takes time for shows to find their way.

Experience which destroys innocence also leads one back to it.

A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

The height of your maturity and sagacity depends on your ability to see the beauty in ugly situations.

Young children see the innocence of life, while some adults live in innocence.

I did this movie called 'Lymelife' when I was 18, and you know, it was the first time I was working as an adult, a legal adult, and that was a huge growing experience for me.

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

You can't confuse childlike faith with childish thinking.