Immaturity Quotes

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the wise.

The need for growth - what we might call immaturity - is not a negative state of being.

Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification.

Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor!

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.

I've always been very confident in my immaturity.

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

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. More importantly, it reflects the firm belief that young persons are more susceptible to change, and thus have a greater potential for rehabilitation than adults.

There's a level of immaturity to people who just can't clean up after themselves.

Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

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 foolish romantic.

Our element is unending immaturity.

People who are angry at themselves sometimes blame others. It's a sign of immaturity.

It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.

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 the least harmful of all, namely, the freedom to use reason publicly in all matters.

How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.

Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.

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 fruit is subsequently produced.

Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity. The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters. It comes from the moral integrity and the intellectual strength of its believers.

I am interested in marginality, in immaturity, in naïveté, in illusion, in fictions, in transitions, in the fact that at a certain moment in life there is no limit. I would like my photography to pose a question rather than make a precise statement.

There's really quite a beautiful marriage between Milady's ingenuity and D'Artagnan's immaturity. When they first meet, she's trying to frame him. She's using him for a certain reason. They haven't just met by coincidence. She's singled him out for a reason. She knows that she can almost make D'Artagnan do what she wants to, and that's when D'Artagnan's immaturity comes out.

... Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty.

Today,’ said Lymond, ‘if you must know, I don’t like living at all. But that’s just immaturity boggling at the sad face of failure. Tomorrow I’ll be bright as a bedbug again.

It was all very childish. Why on earth should Edward have to leave for Jacob to come over? Weren't we past this immaturity?

The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity.

There were times my immaturity kept me from being all I wanted to be.

Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?

Immaturity is the inability to act in your own long-term best interest or consistent with your deepest values. As aforementioned, self-awareness is critical to self-regulation in that it is the process of identifying, among other things, our values.

It is a sign of a medium's immaturity when one of the main topics of discussion is the medium itself.