Quotes About Immaturity

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

Pearl S. Buck

#2. I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#3. 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.

Mustafa Akyol

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

Tom Standage

#5. Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!

Edwin Louis Cole

#6. I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an imaginary totem pole. I give you my respect because of your actions.

Erica Goros

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

Len Elmore

#8. To yearn for a single, and usually simple, explanation of the chaotic materials of the past, to search for a single thread in that most tangled of all skeins, is a sign of immaturity.

Henry Steele Commager

#9. But when the teaching of the Bible is plain, then continuing to maintain an open mind is a sign not of maturity, but of immaturity.

John R.W. Stott

#10. Our element is unending immaturity.

Witold Gombrowicz

#11. My secret to maintaining a youthful appearance? Immaturity.

Brian Spellman

#12. I think I matured quite early, but what that does mean is I have moments of complete immaturity. When I come home, I don't want to be an actor. I just want to be a kid. I barely even know what money is.

Dakota Blue Richards

#13. In Soviet thinking the concept of economy of force has little place. Whereas to an Englishman the taking of a sledgehammer to crack a nut is a wrong decision and a sign of mental immaturity ... in Russian eyes the cracking of nuts is clearly what sledgehammers are for.

Max Hastings

#14. From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.

Alison Gopnik

#15. 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.

Mikhail Naimy

#16. It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#17. 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

#18. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another.

Jon Meacham

#19. There is nothing that the mature hate more, there is nothing that disgusts them more, than immaturity

Witold Gombrowicz

#20. Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification.

Mike Murdock

#21. It is not love to ignore your spouse's sin, or brokenness, or immaturity.

John Eldredge

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

Stephenie Meyer

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

Mason Cooley

#24. Immaturity means self-centeredness, inability to compromise, to rise above hurt feelings, to postpone immediate pleasures in favor of future benefits, or to do unpleasant chores when they need to be done.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#25. Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.

Noorilhuda

#26. All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#27. Maturity cannot be hurried, programmed, or tinkered with. There are no steroids available for growing up in Christ more quickly. Impatient shortcuts land us in the dead ends of immaturity.

Eugene H. Peterson

#28. Politics is the executive expression of human immaturity.

Vera Brittain

#29. Youthful immaturity is one of the cosmere's great catalysts for change.

Brandon Sanderson

#30. [On Addis Ababa:] Among the city's handicaps are an immaturity for which no one can be blamed, as it was founded only eighty years ago, and a proliferation of architectural excesses for which many people can and should be blamed.

Dervla Murphy

#31. Continuously feeling superior is a characteristic of immaturity.

Eraldo Banovac

#32. When we treat God as a different identity, our thought process becomes dualistic in nature. This is due to the self ignorance, ego and immaturity; in simple words, less knowledge about our own immortality.

Vishal Chipkar

#33. How can she explain to Gustaf that within the magic circle of maternal energy, Irena has never manage to rule over her own life? How can she explain that the constant proximity of the mother would throw her back, into her weakness, her immaturity?

Milan Kundera

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

Jann Wenner

#35. He was ashamed of baiting the man, realizing that the absurdity of the story rested in the immaturity of the attitude combined with the sophisticated method of its narration.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#36. Born-again living seemed to me just a crutch which no longer facilitated healing and growth, but actually protracted immaturity.

Robert M. Price

#37. 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.

Dorothy Dunnett

#38. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Immanuel Kant

#39. You'll learn all too soon, Gibben Nemesio, that youth is fleeting. Immaturity, however, can be nurtured for a lifetime.

Shiriluna Nott

#40. Poetry and painting have arrived to their perfection in our own country; music is yet but in its nonage [immaturity], a forward Child, which gives hope of what it may be hereafter in England, when the masters of it shall find more Encouragement.

Henry Purcell

#41. Continue demonstrating your immaturity," the Eldest said. "Surely, I will be persuaded then.

Will Wight

#42. By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.

Bill Vaughan

#43. It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

George Bernard Shaw

#44. Autonomous people, nations, and systems can promote each other's welfare; they do not have to fight each other like those whose inner insecurity and immaturity continually demand the demarcation of limits and postures of intimidation.

Christa Wolf

#45. 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.

Andrew Sarris

#46. The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse.

Anthony Burgess

#47. The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters' food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them.

Philip Pullman

#48. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

Dave Barry

#49. Jasnah sniffed. Your tutors were idiots. Youthful immaturity is one of the cosmere's great catalysts for change, Shallan.

Brandon Sanderson

#50. My pride and immaturity caused me to make things more of a struggle than they had to be. I can always blame others or circumstances, but the truth was that my own sinful pride led to more stress than anything else.

Francis Chan

#51. Wine is a living, breathing thing during its time in the bottle and in the glass. It is always changing, especially in the glass. A little oxygen can really open up and release the flavors in a complex wine, as well as mellow the rougher edge of immaturity.

Mireille Guiliano

#52. Young age can be experience just once, but immaturity never leaves even we grown up??

Bheng927

#53. I'm so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip, of high school. It doesn't make sense anymore, and I find myself being nice to people that I want to strangle.

Coco Chanel

#54. Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

Edwin Louis Cole

#55. Yes, Louise Brooks was beautiful and intelligent, and she could be very funny, but obviously there was a deep insecurity there, a real destructive rage and immaturity.

Laura Moriarty

#56. it's an attitude that mostly comes from immaturity, low self-esteem, and feelings of social powerlessness, and adolescence is a petri dish for those kinds of breeding conditions. I

Elliott James

#57. Anything or everything treated as a 'Problem' on planet earth, falls under the clause of mankind's Self' Ignorance , Ego & Immaturity.

Vishal Chipkar

#58. The absence of consistent biblical worldview thinking is a key mark of spiritual immaturity.

Albert Mohler

#59. What people really suffer from is immaturity. Among mature people war would not be a problem - it would be impossible.

Peace Pilgrim

#60. Untraumatized people have a natural instinct to make healthy decisions in the best interest of their true selves. They are only limited by their immaturity and the brokenness of their external world.

Daniel Mackler

#61. Why does not the stunning evidence of the last miracle grant me confidence in the next crisis? Because my immaturity does not permit such a faith, my desperate prayer is that God would grant me a robust faith sufficient to trust Him not for one crisis, but for an eternity of miracles.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#62. 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

#63. With Christ in us and the Holy Spirit transforming us, we really have no excuse for continuing immaturity.

Gary L. Thomas

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

Nelson Rodrigues

#65. Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.

Rick Warren

#66. Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

#67. Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. ... 1 Nothing 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. - IMMANUEL KANT, What Is Enlightenment?

Jon Meacham

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

John Shelby Spong

#69. Your basic problem is emotional immaturity. You want life to be like in the movies, full of excitement. That's how a child's mind works, but the adults accept regularity, tedium, frustration.

Edward Bunker

#70. The main point of enlightenment is man's release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.

Immanuel Kant

#71. ... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold.

Mark Zero

#72. Comb your immaturity if you want to grow.

Kishore Bansal

#73. I've always been very confident in my immaturity.

Brandon Sanderson

#74. Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

Aristophanes

#75. There's a difference between immaturity and not being ready, and there's a certain maturity in admitting that you're not ready.

Aprille Legacy

#76. While analyzing so many people I realized the constant need of a mother, or a father, or a god (the same thing) is really immaturity. It is a childish need, a human need, but so universal that I can see how it gave birth to all religions.

Anais Nin

#77. 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 with the fact that you are thinking too much of yourself. After all, your feelings are not the most important thing in this world.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

#78. Snarky should never be confused with clever ...
(Snarky just showcases immaturity and a need to make other feel small in order to make oneself feel better. Clever shows wit, intelligence and the gift of play on words. Hurtful is as hurtful does and its just wrong.)

Marianne Morea

#79. I'm pretty good at most things where immaturity is an asset.

Debora Geary

#80. 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?

Franz Grillparzer

#81. The much-sought prize of eternal youth
Is just arrested growth.

Edgar Lee Masters

#82. Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.

Criss Jami

#83. Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of greatness.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#84. I have had, in the course of my life, lots of encounters and lots of serious people. I have spent lots of time with grown-ups. I have seen them at close range ... which haven't much improved my opinion of them.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#85. 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.

Confucius

#86. He was not for that moment a human being, but a frenzied creature possessed by rage, turned into an animal. All that could be seen in him was the urge to hurt, and it was, as it always will be, the most dreadful sight in the world.

Susan Cooper

#87. You have attained maturity; display it for us, if you please.

MaryJanice Davidson

#88. I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.

Neil Gaiman

#89. My room is a grave yard of whisky bottles in a swamp of stale beer, cigar ashes, and dick jokes.

Vincent Brooks

#90. Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.

Ron Suskind

#91. The clash is born of the fact that the child within me sees with undiluted clarity what the adult within me is incessantly working to deny. And in these most vexing moments, to be the adult is to defer to the child.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#92. So unfair, she thought. Her baby was going to grow up, and her husband wasn't.

Stacy Bierlein

#93. To the immature, other people are not real.

Harry Overstreet

#94. 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

#95. Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.

Criss Jami

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

Blaise Pascal

#97. ... I guessed that when you are nearly a man, you have to learn to put up with a lot of aggravation from little old bitty kids.

Fred Gipson

#98. 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

#99. 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

#100. I am just making up for being far too sensible when I was young.

Robert Black