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Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity. (Quote by - Paul Johannes Tillich)

There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. (Quote by - Doctor Who)

Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life. (Quote by - Anonymous)

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. (Quote by - Tom Stoppard)

Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity. (Quote by - Richard Owen)

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day? (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)

Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares. (Quote by - Doris Lessing)

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person. (Quote by - Brian Tracy)

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom. (Quote by - Karl Rahner)

Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. (Quote by - Bob Dylan)

Maturity is knowing when to be immature. (Quote by - Randall Hall)

The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt. (Quote by - Leo Baeck)

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live. (Quote by - Andre Gide)

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. (Quote by - Wilhelm Stekel)

Most men do not mature, they simply grow taller. (Quote by - Leo Rosten)

Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity. (Quote by - Marilyn vos Savant)

I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity. (Quote by - Pedro Almodovar)

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up. (Quote by - Eve Babitz)

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other men. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. (Quote by - Hindustani proverb)

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. (Quote by - Immanuel Kant)

Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty. (Quote by - John Finley)

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. (Quote by - Robert S Hillyer)

Mankind grows taller, older, and ever more wise; but seldom truly up. (Quote by - Wes Fessler)

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