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Quotes About Immaturity

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another. This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but lack of resolution and courage to use it without the guidance of another. The motto of enlightenment is therefore: Sapere aude! Have courage to use your own understanding!
~ Ritchie Robertson
I knew I couldn't sleep with her. I don't know - in my small experience of women, I've found it to hard to sleep with them at such times. Times when you get impression that there's more to them than an opportunity. Sleeping with girls was great, sleeping with people was a bit more complicated. Maybe it was a bad thing, maybe a sign of my immaturity, but I knew that there was some kind of tenderness in it as well.
~ Robert McLiam Wilson
It would have been childish to give him the finger, so I didn't do it. Zane did it for me. Jason blew them a kiss. We
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.
~ Lawrence Block
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
The curse of immaturity," he said, "is that the more immature you are the more desperate you are to impress others. An' the less likely you are to do the right thing, the thing that's gonna impress 'em. So you get the teen who likes to rev his engine, drive too fast, all to show what a capable and heroic adult he is. An' all the adults he passes shake their heads an' think, 'What an idiot kid.
~ Adam Rex
Belly's gonna cry," Steven said in a singsong voice. Then he and Jeremiah started to dance a jig together. "Leave her alone," Conrad said. Steven stopped dancing. "What?" he said, confused. "You guys are so immature," Conrad said, shaking his head.
~ Jenny Han
The sinner does not need more grace than the saint, nor does the immature and undisciplined believer need more than the godly, zealous missionary. We all need the same amount of grace because the "currency" of our good works is debased and worthless before God.
~ Jerry Bridges
Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.
~ John Shelby Spong
As a young ma,n I was an absolute idiot. I think my exes would say I was a likeable baby. I had a teenager's bedroom when I was 32.
~ Greg Davies
I became famous so quickly and so young - it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.
~ Gary Numan
I was in the machine. My whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat me out. So I thought, OK, if I'm out, I'm out. All the way out. I was a little angry and it was probably an immature reaction. But I got used to it.
~ Lee Child
The absence of consistent biblical worldview thinking is a key mark of spiritual immaturity.
~ Albert Mohler
Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.
~ Albert Einstein
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
I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.
~ Scott Weiland
Tomorrow we settle this like children.
~ Jhonen Vasquez
I had taken the photograph from afar (distance being the basic glitch in our relationship), using my Nikon and zoom lens while hiding behind a fake marble pillar. I was hiding because if he knew I'd been secretly photographing him for all these months he would think I was immature, neurotic and obsessive. I'm not. I'm an artist. Artists are always misunderstood.(Thwonk)
~ Joan Bauer
De Leidsche Courant biedt de helpende hand." (Pg13) "De golven rollen zo dat ze over de kop slaan" (pg 19) "Die blijven altijd kind, ze kunnen niet volwassen worden." (Pg 42)
~ Anna Enquist
I am proud of my immaturity and political inexperience.
~ Emmanuel Macron
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
Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
He was nice enough, an old guy who got famous in the 1960s for doing drugs and getting high and calling it research, so you have to figure he was a bit of a flake and probably pretty immature, too.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Henry is a youngling
~ Alison Weir