“In short, immaturity is spoiled. And what is spoiled doesn’t ripen. It goes bad early, gets bitter and withers on the vine.” — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
Yes, Louise Brooks was beautiful and intelligent, and she could be very funny, but obviously there was a deep insecurity there, a… — Laura Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Some suggest that this cocoon mentality is behind recent campus trends such as "trigger warnings" to alert students that a reading or… — Jean M. Twenge Copy Share Image
Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Immaturity is the inability to act in your own long-term best interest or consistent with your deepest values. As aforementioned, self-awareness is… — Chip Espinoza Copy Share Image
There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic,… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
“Being told that you have not changed is not always a compliment.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
... Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty. — John Boyne Copy Share Image
The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Young persons, because of their immaturity, may not fully comprehend the consequences of their actions and should therefore benefit from less severe… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
People who are angry at themselves sometimes blame others. It's a sign of immaturity. — Jeanne Phillips Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
[On Addis Ababa:] Among the city's handicaps are an immaturity for which no one can be blamed, as it was founded only… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
“So unfair, she thought. Her baby was going to grow up, and her husband wasn't.” — Stacy Bierlein Copy Share Image
Through the practice of devotion to God, I was coming to learn that preserving loving relations in this world required much forgiveness,… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Immaturity means self-centeredness, inability to compromise, to rise above hurt feelings, to postpone immediate pleasures in favor of future benefits, or to… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity...No thing is required for this enlightenment.. .except freedom; and the freedom in question is… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“The critical nature of 'choices' -- [the] timing will prove to be an asset or liability; it will reward wisdom or expose… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
The need for growth - what we might call immaturity - is not a negative state of being. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for… — Mikhail Naimy Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image