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Maturity Quotes

"As we grow older we lose illusons but gain experience and understanding."

"Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy."

"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it"

"To be mature means to take responsibility for defining meaning in our lives, creating fresh forms of meaning via work, relationships, and feeling the fullness of existence."

"We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves."

"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything"

"Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough."

"One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered"

"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."

"Childhood: The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth"

"Character is developed over time"

"You can’t rush good wine. It has to sit. And when you finally drink it, it’s the bomb. It’s worth the wait"

"There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions"

"To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity."

"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday"

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