Quotes about Immature

Aristophanes

Comic Playwright

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

Age - Drunkenness - Education - Ignorance - Immature - Stupid - Youth

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John Dewey

Philosopher, Psychologist, Educational Reformer

The need for growth - what we might call immaturity - is not a negative state of being.

Growing - Immature - State

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Anais Nin

Writer

While analyzing so many people I realized the constant need of a mother, or a father, or a god (the same thing) is really immaturity. It is a childish need, a human need, but so universal that I can see how it gave birth to all religions.

Analysis - Father - Human - Immature - Mother - People - Universal

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Napoleon Bonaparte

Politician, Leader, Military Commander

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

Children - Immature - Man

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Rajneesh

Guru

A mature person does not fall in love, he or she rises in love. Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love. Somehow they were managing and standing. Now they cannot manage and they cannot stand. They were always ready to fall on the ground and to creep. They don't have the backbone, the spine; they don't have the integrity to stand alone.

Backbone - Fall - Freedom - Immature - Integrity - Management - Maturing - People

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Vladimir Nabokov

Leader, Novelist, Novelist

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.

Enjoying - Imagination - Immature - Life - Limits - Order

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Eric Hoffer

Historian, Writer, Philosopher

Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished animal and an unfinished man. It is this incurable unfinishedness which sets man apart from other living things. For, in the attempt to finish himself, man becomes a creator. Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

Animals - Creating - Growing - Immature - Man - Perfection

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Immanuel Kant

Philosopher

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.

Immature - Man - Oneself - Spirits - Value

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Erich Fromm

Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

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 - Love - Maturing - Principle

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Immanuel Kant

Philosopher

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

Immature

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

Bitterness - Cynicism - Immature - Politics - Wishing

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Rajneesh

Guru

Learn something from marriage. Marriage represents the whole world in a miniature form: it teaches you many things. It is only the mediocre ones who learn nothing. Otherwise it will teach you that you don't know what love is, that you don't know how to relate, that you don't know how to communicate, that you don't know how to commune, that you don't know how to live with another. It is a mirror: it shows your face to you in all its different aspects. And it is all needed for your maturity. But a person who remains clinging to it forever remains immature. One has to go beyond it too.

Communicate - Immature - Marriage - Mediocrity - Show - Teaching - Whole - World

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Rajneesh

Guru

Immature people falling in love destroy each other's freedom, create a bondage, make a prison. Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help each other to destroy all sorts of bondages. And when love flows with freedom there is beauty. When love flows with dependence there is ugliness.

Dependence - Fall - Flow - Freedom - Help - Immature - Maturing - People - Prison - Ugly

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Immanuel Kant

Philosopher

Enlightenment is man's leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one's intelligence without being guided by another. Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.

Immature - Man - Oneself

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Nikolai Gogol

Philosopher, Writer, Dramatist

I here ask pardon of all my compatriots for everything of which I have been guilty towards them. I know that, by my ill-considered and immature works, I have brought distress to many and that I have even provoked others to attack me openly and, in general, have produced displeasure in many.

Attacking - Guilt - Immature - Knowledge - Open - Production - Work

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Immanuel Kant

Philosopher

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!

Alien - Immature

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Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual Teacher, Author

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.

Children - Consciousness - Development - Ego - Human - Immature - Planet

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Abraham Maslow

Psychologist

The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy

Immature - Philosophy - Psychology - Studying - Unhealthy - Yielding

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Blaise Pascal

Mathematician, Physicist, Inventor, Theologian

How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.

Children - Growing - Immature - Strength - Weakness

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Philologist, Cultural Critic, Scholar

All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.

Communicate - Human - Immature - Obligations - Speaking

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