Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification.
My pride and immaturity caused me to make things more of a struggle than they had to be. I can always blame others or circumstances, but the truth was that my own sinful pride led to more stress than anything else.
I am interested in marginality, in immaturity, in naïveté, in illusion, in fictions, in transitions, in the fact that at a certain moment in life there is no limit. I would like my photography to pose a question rather than make a precise statement.
It is a sign of a medium's immaturity when one of the main topics of discussion is the medium itself.
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.
. . . Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty.
For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
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.
Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!
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.
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.
How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.
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.
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.
People who are angry at themselves sometimes blame others. It's a sign of immaturity.
It was all very childish. Why on earth should Edward have to leave for Jacob to come over? Weren't we past this immaturity?
That is the first thing to learn — not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping. The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality, or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosophers or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself and that is why you must know yourself. Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.
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.
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.
