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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. -- Immanuel Kant
For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect. -- Mason Cooley
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. -- Vera Brittain
Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity. -- Edwin Louis Cole
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry
There's a level of immaturity to people who just can't clean up after themselves. -- Jann Wenner
Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence. -- John Shelby Spong
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. -- Edith Wharton
God...doesn't intend to help us live the Christian life. Immaturity considers the Lord Jesus a Helper. Maturity knows Him to be life itself. -- Miles J. Stanford
Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification. -- Mike Murdock
Immaturity means self-centeredness, inability to compromise, to rise above hurt feelings, to postpone immediate pleasures in favor of future benefits, or to do unpleasant chores when they need to be done. -- Arnold J. Toynbee
I've always been very confident in my immaturity. -- Brandon Sanderson
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. -- Immanuel Kant
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. -- Dave Barry
How many really capable men are children more than once during the day! -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The absence of consistent biblical worldview thinking is a key mark of spiritual immaturity. -- Albert Mohler
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever. -- Aristophanes
It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity. -- George Bernard Shaw
How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies. -- Blaise Pascal
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. -- Tom Robbins
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. -- Confucius
Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension. -- Rick Warren
From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults. -- Alison Gopnik
I think I matured quite early, but what that does mean is I have moments of complete immaturity. When I come home, I don't want to be an actor. I just want to be a kid. I barely even know what money is. -- Dakota Blue Richards
By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed. -- Bill Vaughan
There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself. -- Immanuel Kant
Our element is unending immaturity. -- Witold Gombrowicz
The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity. -- Nelson Rodrigues
It is not love to ignore your spouse's sin, or brokenness, or immaturity. -- John Eldredge
Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity. -- Pearl S. Buck
There were times my immaturity kept me from being all I wanted to be. -- Len Elmore
People who are angry at themselves sometimes blame others. It's a sign of immaturity. -- Jeanne Phillips
Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity. -- Noorilhuda
The need for growth - what we might call immaturity - is not a negative state of being. -- John Dewey
... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold. -- Mark Zero
It is a sign of a medium's immaturity when one of the main topics of discussion is the medium itself. -- Tom Standage
What people really suffer from is immaturity. Among mature people war would not be a problem - it would be impossible. -- Peace Pilgrim
It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him. -- Immanuel Kant
Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime! -- Edwin Louis Cole
It was all very childish. Why on earth should Edward have to leave for Jacob to come over? Weren't we past this immaturity? -- Stephenie Meyer
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. -- Andrew Sarris
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. -- Laura Moriarty
The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters' food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them. -- Philip Pullman
The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse. -- Anthony Burgess
I'm so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip, of high school. It doesn't make sense anymore, and I find myself being nice to people that I want to strangle. -- Coco Chanel
Untraumatized people have a natural instinct to make healthy decisions in the best interest of their true selves. They are only limited by their immaturity and the brokenness of their external world. -- Daniel Mackler
To yearn for a single, and usually simple, explanation of the chaotic materials of the past, to search for a single thread in that most tangled of all skeins, is a sign of immaturity. -- Henry Steele Commager
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. -- Mustafa Akyol
Autonomous people, nations, and systems can promote each other's welfare; they do not have to fight each other like those whose inner insecurity and immaturity continually demand the demarcation of limits and postures of intimidation. -- Christa Wolf

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