Top 28 Mature Immature Quotes
#1. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn.
T. S. Eliot
#3. The wise will hide your follies and help you learn, but the wicked ones will gossip about it with scoundrels.
Aniruddha Sastikar
#4. The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one
Wilhelm Stekel
#5. With an easy life you can never grow mature; with a tough life you can never remain immature!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#6. Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.
Erich Fromm
#7. Sorrow and strife comes to all persons. Mature people expect hardships and setbacks and patiently and determinedly work to accomplish their goals. Immature people lash out in anger and frustration when circumstances conspire to blunt their short-term objectives.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#8. Mature men look into the ladies hearts.
Immature ones mention constantly their body parts.
They mentioned sex like they're obsessed.
Enslaved by drugs and alcohol; helpless.
Ricardo Derose
#9. Most x-rated films are advertised as "adult entertaintment,"for "mature adults," when in reality they are juvenile entertainment for immature and insecure people.
Zig Ziglar
#10. Few endeavors, if any at all, I find to be inherently mature or inherently immature. Maturity is neither defined by one's particular preferences nor by one's particular activities; rather, it is defined by the strength of one's character.
Criss Jami
#11. Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.
Richard Rohr
#13. The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes,
T. S. Eliot
#14. The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.
Harry Allen Overstreet
#15. Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.
Jeffrey Kluger
#16. Immature thought is predominately purposive and utopian. Thought which rejects purpose altogether is the thought of old age. Mature thought combines purpose with observation and analysis.
Edward Hallett Carr
#18. Wearing a suit doesn't make you mature or knowledgeable. It only makes you seem so ... to people who are immature and/or ignorant.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#19. The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.
Henry Cloud
#20. The reality of the ordinary progress of Christian understanding should not escape our notice: early believers "know no answers"; immature believers "know all the answers"; and mature believers "know the limits of our answers.
Bryan Chapell
#21. I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.
Adam McKay
#22. The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
J.D. Salinger
#23. Immature men make decisions based on how they feel. Mature men make decisions based on what is right.
John Yates
#24. emotional health and spiritual maturity are inseparable. It is not possible to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature.
Peter Scazzero
#25. If somebody ever says something is a mature theme, it's bound to not be. I mean, you shouldn't fall for that. You can make it sound mature, but anything that's about being mature is pretty immature.
Ariel Pink
#26. Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.
George Pierce Baker
#27. Mature, healthy people need other people; they don't isolate themselves ... Needing love isn't being immature. Rather, it gives us the energy we need to go out and slay our dragons.
Henry Cloud
#28. The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
Lionel Trilling
