Mature Quotes - Page 4

We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them.

Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.

I don't know if any of us are mature enough to handle the brutal honesty of what's inside other people's heads.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

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

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

Ego is an immature stage of development for humans, and that's what it will be recognized as when the consciousness changes on the planet. Children will develop an ego and quickly outgrow it. That's very different from developing an ego and being stuck with it for the rest of your life.

Heartbreak is how we mature... There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak.

The prophet who misses it occasionally in his prophecies may be ignorant, immature, or presumptuous, or he may be ministering with too much zeal and too little wisdom and anointing. But this does not prove him a false prophet. It is certainly possible for a true prophet to be inaccurate.

The fact that I am so young So Immature Seems unforgivable to The decrepit Perfect and faultless adults

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.

There can be leftist groups that have not matured politically.

With Maurice suddenly going, I realised... I think I've matured. I don't take things lightly any more.

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

I don't want anyone to follow me on Twitter if they're looking for anything interesting or mature.

Some stuff can be fixed, some stuff can’t be. Deciding which is which is part of maturing.

On your way towards becoming a bad theoretician, take your own immature theory, stop checking it for mistakes, don't listen to colleagues who do spot weaknesses, and start admiring your own infallible intelligence.

One of the smartest things a person can do is dampen investment expectations, especially with Berkshire. That would be mature and responsible. I like our model and we should do nicely

What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?

Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.

I like red wine because it's more sophisticated, more complex and mature. It's a bit like me, no longer young but not old yet either.

Any mature, spiritually sensitive view of marriage must be built on the foundation of mature love rather than romanticism. But this immediately casts us into a countercultural pursuit.

The adult who is constantly changing friends and changing mates is immature. He/she cannot stick it out because he/she has not grown up.

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.