Immaturity Quotes:

There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse, or the expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance.

- Alfred Kinsey

source: Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin, Paul H. Gebhard (1998). “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female”, p.195, Indiana University Press

topic: Expression, Immature, Immaturity, Disturbance, Psychopathic

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

source: Andrew Sarris (1996). “The American cinema: directors and directions, 1929-1968”, Da Capo Pr

topic: Immaturity, Cynicism, Foolish

I've always been very confident in my immaturity.

- Brandon Sanderson

source: Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.217, Macmillan

topic: Personality, Immaturity

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

- Edwin Louis Cole

topic: Men, Immature, Immaturity, Inconsistency, Being Immature

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

- Immanuel Kant

topic: Intelligence, Immature, Immaturity, Incapacity, Mature And Immature

There's a level of immaturity to people who just can't clean up after themselves.

- Jann Wenner

topic: People, Immaturity, Levels

... Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty.

- John Boyne

topic: Boys, Years, Immaturity

Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.

- John Shelby Spong

topic: Christian, Immaturity, Church, Primaries

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.

- Mary Robinson

topic: Immaturity, Benefits, Rehabilitation, Firm Beliefs, Severe

Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the wise.

- Mikhail Naimy

topic: Wise, Feet, Immaturity, Behemoth

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

topic: Integrity, Intellectual, Immaturity, Moral Integrity

The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity.

- Nelson Rodrigues

source: "Collection of the works of Nelson Rodrigues: the 1000 best quotes by Nelson Rodrigues" by Companhia das Letras, (p. 94), 1992.

topic: Immaturity, Adults, Flaws

Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

- Pearl S. Buck

topic: Spiritual, Immaturity, Introversion

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

topic: Past, Immaturity, Earth

It is a sign of a medium's immaturity when one of the main topics of discussion is the medium itself.

- Tom Standage

topic: Immaturity, Topics, Mediums

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

- Vera Brittain

source: Rebel Passion (1964) ch. 1

topic: Expression, Political, Immaturity

Our element is unending immaturity.

- Witold Gombrowicz

source: Witold Gombrowicz (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.85, Yale University Press

topic: Immaturity, Elements, Unending

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.

- Chip Espinoza

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: Immaturity, Consistent, Interest

There were times my immaturity kept me from being all I wanted to be.

- Len Elmore

topic: Immaturity, Wanted

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.

- Lise Sarfati

topic: Photography, Immaturity, Transition

People who are angry at themselves sometimes blame others. It's a sign of immaturity.

- Jeanne Phillips

topic: Women, People, Immaturity

There's really quite a beautiful marriage between Milady's ingenuity and D'Artagnan's immaturity. When they first meet, she's trying to frame him. She's using him for a certain reason. They haven't just met by coincidence. She's singled him out for a reason. She knows that she can almost make D'Artagnan do what she wants to, and that's when D'Artagnan's immaturity comes out.

- Luke Pasqualino

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Beautiful, Immaturity, Trying, Beautiful Marriage

Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?

- Franz Grillparzer

topic: Art, Style, Immaturity, Juvenile

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

source: Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

topic: Spring, Flower, Immaturity

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

- John Dewey

topic: Growth, Immaturity, Needs

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Immaturity, Literature, Defects, Being Immature

Today,’ said Lymond, ‘if you must know, I don’t like living at all. But that’s just immaturity boggling at the sad face of failure. Tomorrow I’ll be bright as a bedbug again.

- Dorothy Dunnett

topic: Immaturity, Today, Faces, Sad Face

Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification.

- Mike Murdock

topic: Self, Immaturity, Inability, Self Gratification

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

- Blaise Pascal

source: Blaise Pascal (2009). “Thoughts”, p.40, Lulu.com

topic: Strong, Childhood, Immaturity

It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.

- Immanuel Kant

source: "Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?". Essay by Immanuel Kant, 1784.

topic: Immaturity, Individual, Natural