It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.
Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!
Immaturity is the inability to act in your own long-term best interest or consistent with your deepest values. As aforementioned, self-awareness is critical to self-regulation in that it is the process of identifying, among other things, our values.
It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is generally the most foolish romantic.
Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.
We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise our commitment to immaturity, mendacity and profound gullibility. It is as the hallmark of the culture. And it is justified as being economically indispensable.
I've always been very confident in my immaturity.
Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor!
Yes, Louise Brooks was beautiful and intelligent, and she could be very funny, but obviously there was a deep insecurity there, a real destructive rage and immaturity.
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
There's a level of immaturity to people who just can't clean up after themselves.
There are cases in which the blade springs, but the plant does not go on to flower. There are cases where it flowers, but no fruit is subsequently produced.
Poetry and painting have arrived to their perfection in our own country; music is yet but in its nonage [immaturity], a forward Child, which gives hope of what it may be hereafter in England, when the masters of it shall find more Encouragement.
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Young persons, because of their immaturity, may not fully comprehend the consequences of their actions and should therefore benefit from less severe sanctions than adults. More importantly, it reflects the firm belief that young persons are more susceptible to change, and thus have a greater potential for rehabilitation than adults.
The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity.
Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity. The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters. It comes from the moral integrity and the intellectual strength of its believers.
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. . . No thing is required for this enlightenment. . . except freedom; and the freedom in question is the least harmful of all, namely, the freedom to use reason publicly in all matters.
. . . Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty.