Mature Thinking Quotes

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

When I was young, I would drive so fast. Now I see it a different way.

If you think about 2Pac, Biggie, and Nas, all of those guys were teenagers or in their early 20s when they got started. Everybody acts like young people have to be silly and lack perspective. Those guys had incredible perspective, and everything that they said was before 25 years old.

A sense of responsibility is the clearest indication of mature leadership.

I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.

Early convictions must give way to more mature ones.

A more normal, mature way to think about it [my work] would be, Oh, I work on multiple projects at once and they overlap, but the actual psychology of it is a lot more self-abusing.

The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in reading, the heart is touched, till its feelings are examined by the understanding, and the ripening of reason regulate the imagination. This is the work of years, and the most important of all employments.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

I feel that I've grown up a little bit and I'm actually ready to settle down.

To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.

Maturity is wanting nothing but what we see with the purity of our heart.

I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own thoughts.

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously.

A lot of times, adults confuse growing up or becoming more mature with a sense of seriousness, a sense of boringness, a sense of just stupidness.

Judgment is a delicate thing and does not come overnight.

When I read a good story, I often start thinking, 'Should I live my life according to what this character chooses and values?' It makes me think. I feel like I grew up to be a more mature person while thinking about character development in these fictional situations.

youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific.

I don't think I really realized what being an adult and being a real grownup was until I was at least twenty-eight.

Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.

Obviously, aging has a certain amount of mellowing process because there's certain things you realise you were doing when you were younger that were plain ridiculous, stupid.

I cannot just do things without thinking. I have a wife and daughter to think of at all times now.