Being Immature Quotes:

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

- Lionel Trilling

source: In Esquire Sept. 1962. Cf. Igor Stravinsky 210:16

topic: Art, Cynical, Immature, Mature And Immature, Being Immature

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

- J. D. Salinger

source: J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

topic: Growing Up, Men, Immature, Mature And Immature, Being Immature

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

- Robert A. Heinlein

source: Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

topic: Love, Life, Positive, Great Feelings, Always Happy

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

topic: Fun, Adventure, Destiny, Woodpeckers, Mature And Immature

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

- Erich Fromm

topic: Love, Life, Dream, Say I Love You, Need Love

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

- Dave Barry

topic: Cute, Birthday, Teenage, Mature And Immature, Rainstorms

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.

- Vladimir Nabokov

topic: Life, Order, Imagination, Mature And Immature, Being Immature

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.

- Mickey Rourke

topic: Immature, Balance, Young, Mature And Immature, Being Immature

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

- George P. Baker

topic: Immature, Impulse, Humans, Mature And Immature, 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

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

- Muhammad Iqbal

topic: Men, Thinking, Animal, Mature And Immature, Converting

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

- Germaine Greer

topic: Life, Happy Birthday, Happiness, Humorous Birthday, Mature And Immature

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Immature, Different, Stealing, Mature And Immature, Writing Poetry

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

- Quentin Crisp

topic: Success, Moving, Character, Mature And Immature, Beastly

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

- Woody Allen

source: "Standup Comic". A CD compilation of Allen comedy routines from 1964-1968, 1999.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Mature And Immature, Being Immature

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

- Edwin Louis Cole

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

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

- Mason Cooley

topic: Immaturity, Literature, Defects, Being Immature

Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to 'commit.'

- Julie Burchill

topic: Men, Immature, Reluctance, Being Immature

Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.

- Richard Rohr

topic: Men, Immature, Levels, Mature And Immature, Soulful

When you are 20 years old, you are immature.

- Melky Cabrera

topic: Years, Immature, Being Immature

I was immature the way I handled the business. I saw myself as a tribune of the people.

- Ron Silver

topic: People, Immature, Way, Mature And Immature, Being Immature

One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Art, Unique, Feelings, Mature And Immature, Stealing Things

In prehistoric times, Homo sapiens was deeply endangered. Early humans were less fleet of foot, with fewer natural weapons and less well-honed senses than all the predators that threatened them. Moreover, they were hampered in their movements by the need to protect their uniquely immature young - juicy meals for any hungry beast.

- Robert Winston

source: "Philip Roth was wrong" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2005.

topic: Feet, Immature, Needs, Mature And Immature, Prehistoric

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.

- Erich Fromm

source: Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

topic: Love, Maturity, Immature, Mature And Immature, I Love You Because

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

- Harry S. Truman

source: Harry S. Truman (1999). “Strictly Personal and Confidential: The Letters Harry Truman Never Mailed”, p.134, University of Missouri Press

topic: Two, Evil, Immature, Mature And Immature, Two Evils

My rookie year, I was very immature.

- Dennis Rodman

topic: Basketball, Years, Immature, Mature And Immature, Being Immature