Maturity Quotes - Page 16

• When I reached intellectual maturity and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist, or an idealist; a Christian, or a freethinker; I found that the more I learned and reflected, the less ready was the answer; until, at last, I came to the conclusion that I had neither art nor part with any of these denominations, except the last.

  Thomas Huxley

  Christian, Art, Atheist

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays”, p.237, tredition

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• The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Flower, Atmosphere, Genius

  Thomas Guthrie (1857). “The city, its sins and sorrows, sermons”, p.9

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• The Criteria of Emotional Maturity: The ability to deal constructively with reality The capacity to adapt to change A relative freedom from symptoms that are produced by tensions and anxieties The capacity to find more satisfaction in giving than receiving The capacity to relate to other people in a consistent manner with mutual satisfaction and helpfulness The capacity to sublimate, to direct one's instinctive hostile energy into creative and constructive outlets The capacity to love.

  William C. Menninger

  Reality, Emotional, Capacity To Love

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• Is there any mystery like who you finally turn out to be.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mystery, Turns

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• Maturity gives us jealous eyes. We look with jealousy on the younger woman because she doesn't know as much now as we do, and, oh, what we could do with our wisdom and her face.

  Virginia Graham

  Jealous, Eye, Giving

  Virginia Graham (1967). “Don't blame the mirror”

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• With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.

  Bela Bartok

  Simple, Wish, Periods

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• Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Character, Civilization, Ideas

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• The political maturity of a country is measured by what citizens willingly do for themselves and one another.

  Frank Prochaska

  Country, Political, Citizens

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• Turning 40 is often a big symbolic point in one's life. In the 20s we feel we can do anything, but as the 30s progress we become more mature emotionally, and in terms of work tend to focus. These two things combined: emotional maturity and career focus, often produced an explosion of self-purpose in our 40s.

  Tom Butler-Bowdon

  Emotional, Focus, Progress

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• A shop-keeper in good business is quite as well off as a pedlar that travels the country with his wares on his back. Commercial jealousy is, after all, nothing but prejudice: it is a wild fruit, that will drop of itself when it has arrived at maturity.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Country, Prejudice, Fruit

  Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.101

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• We can grieve over lost powers and memories, or rejoice over gained knowledge and maturity, according to taste.

  Simon Blackburn

  Memories, Grieving, Taste

  Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.101, Oxford University Press

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• Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.

  David Hilbert

  Degrees, Kind, Mathematics

  "Axiomatic Thought (1918)". "From Kant to Hilbert: a source book in the foundations of mathematics". Book by William Bragg Ewald, 1996.

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• No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Love, Fall, Fruit

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• Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiment.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Beauty, Flower, Expression

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• When women reach the age of maturity, Mother Nature sometimes overworks their frustration to the point of irrationalism. Like themiddle-aged man...who finds himself looking longingly at a girl in her early twenties.

  Mark Hanna

  Girl, Mother, Women

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• Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul.

  Ann Landers

  Long, Judgment, Bigs

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• Accumulating years in the act of living is no guarantee of maturity. In fact, it is possible to be born, grow old and die without ever maturing.

  Tian Dayton

  Years, Guarantees, Facts

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• I like a woman who has both maturity and ingenuity. This comes under the heading of femininity.

  Laurence Harvey

  Femininity, Ingenuity, Headings

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• The resurrection is not a static and an isolated event fixed in the past, but the unleashing of a power and force that takes the form of a death defying love. Resurrection is ever present, constantly accosting us, challenging us, stretching us, cracking us open and seeking to have its way with us in order that we might come to maturity in Christ.

  Frank Griswold

  Past, Order, Challenges

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• They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their revolutionary adolescence and demonstrate that they have reached political maturity.

  Ari Shavit

  Moving, Responsibility, Political

  "After Gaza disengagement, then what? Speculation intensifies" by Jack Epstein, www.sfgate.com. August 14, 2005.

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• The promise of learning is a delusion.... Tomorrow would alter the sense of what had already been learned, that the learning process is extended in this way, so that from this standpoint none of us ever graduates from college, for time is an emulsion, and probably thinking not to grow up is the brightest kind of maturity for us, right now at any rate.

  John Ashbery

  Growing Up, College, Thinking

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

  Cesare Pavese

  Reflection, Long, Childhood

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• When you're younger, you don't realize you have limitations and that you are the one who has to take care of yourself. Nobody else is going to do it for you. And so, with all of that time, maturity and realizations, I'm in a much better place to be the best that I've ever been and to continue growing as a person and as an artist.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Artist, Growing As A Person, Realization

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

  Peter Coyote

  Compassion, People, Needs

  "Peter Coyote" by Cynthia Robins, www.sfgate.com. April 19, 1998.

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• You know, some actors, all of their potential is in their youth, and when that passes, their qualities of as an actor pass. But he - Alan [Rickman] was the opposite, and their are other actors who are like that, who, really, their potential is in maturity.

  Helen Mirren

  Opposites, Quality, Actors

  "His 'Potential Was In Maturity': Helen Mirren, Chris Columbus On Alan Rickman". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

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