Immaturity Quotes
54 quotes by 45 authors
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Young persons, because of their immaturity, may not fully comprehend the consequences of their actions and should therefore benefit from less severe sanctions than adults.…
— Mary Robinson
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Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life, I am constantly…
— Phillip Lopate
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There are cases in which the blade springs, but the plant does not go on to flower. There are cases where it flowers, but no…
— Confucius
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How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.
— Blaise Pascal
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It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is generally the most…
— Andrew Sarris
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Irritability is immaturity of character. If you are subject to being cross and unpleasant with others for no apparent reason, you need to come face-to-face…
— Lawrence G. Lovasik
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How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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God...doesn't intend to help us live the Christian life. Immaturity considers the Lord Jesus a Helper. Maturity knows Him to be life itself.
— Miles J. Stanford
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Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.
— Edwin Louis Cole
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For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
— Mason Cooley
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
— Immanuel Kant
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Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
— Tom Robbins
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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.
— John Shelby Spong
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
— Edith Wharton
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
— Aristophanes
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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 is self-caused if…
— Immanuel Kant
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I've always been very confident in my immaturity.
— Brandon Sanderson
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Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
— Immanuel Kant
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Our element is unending immaturity.
— Witold Gombrowicz
Who Wrote These Immaturity Quotes
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