Mature And Immature Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

My rookie year, I was very immature.

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.

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.

I was immature the way I handled the business. I saw myself as a tribune of the people.

Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

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

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

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

I need you because I love you.

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