Mature And Immature Quotes

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

  Immanuel Kant

  Maturity, Divine Guidance, Intelligence

  "Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?" by Immanuel Kant, translated by Lewis White Beck, 1784.

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• People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Animal, Men, Thinking

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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

  Fun, Adventure, Destiny

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.19, Bantam

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• Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Jealousy, Mistake

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

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• You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

  Germaine Greer

  Life, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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• The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.

  Leo Baeck

  Maturity, Men, Giving

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• The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

  Quentin Crisp

  Success, Moving, Character

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• My rookie year, I was very immature.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Years, Immature

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• 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

  Growing Up, Maturity, Men

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

  Lionel Trilling

  Art, Cynical, Immature

  In Esquire Sept. 1962. Cf. Igor Stravinsky 210:16

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• I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.

  Mickey Rourke

  Immature, Balance, Young

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• Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

  George P. Baker

  Immature, Impulse, Humans

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• Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

  Quentin Crisp

  Moving, Character, Self

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• Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Life, Order, Imagination

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1989). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”

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• Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Life, Romantic

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Writing, Reading Poetry

  The Sacred Wood "Philip Massinger" (1920)

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  Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Life, Positive

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

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• You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

  Dave Barry

  Cute, Birthday, Teenage

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• 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.

  T. S. Eliot

  Stealing Things, Immature, Different

  1920 The Sacred Wood,'Philip Massinger'.

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• I need you because I love you.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Romantic, Disappointment

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

  Harry S. Truman

  Two, Evil, Immature

  Harry S. Truman (1999). “Strictly Personal and Confidential: The Letters Harry Truman Never Mailed”, p.134, University of Missouri Press

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• I used to be homophobic, but as I got older, I realized that wasn't the way to do things. I don't discriminate against anybody for their sexual preference, for their skin color... that's immature.

  ASAP Rocky

  Skin Color, Immature, Skins

  "Jay-Z, Macklemore, ASAP Rocky lead gay-rights shift in hip-hop" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. March 27, 2013.

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• Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Standup Comic". A CD compilation of Allen comedy routines from 1964-1968, 1999.

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• Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Maturity, Immature

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• In prehistoric times, Homo sapiens was deeply endangered. Early humans were less fleet of foot, with fewer natural weapons and less well-honed senses than all the predators that threatened them. Moreover, they were hampered in their movements by the need to protect their uniquely immature young - juicy meals for any hungry beast.

  Robert Winston

  Feet, Immature, Meals

  "Philip Roth was wrong" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2005.

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