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The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time. (Quote by - Muhammed Iqbal)

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

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity. (Quote by - Edwin Louis Cole)

How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering. (Quote by - Julius Gordon)

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them. (Quote by - Sir Winston Churchill)

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it better. (Quote by - Cesare Pavese)

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.' (Quote by - W. H. Auden)

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity. (Quote by - Pope John Paul II)

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant. (Quote by - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola)

When I grow up I want to be a little boy. (Quote by - Joseph Heller)

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates. (Quote by - Dag Hammarskjold)

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well. (Quote by - E. James 'Jim' Rohn)

Immaturity prevails in those who pursue it. (Quote by - Mary Reinhardt)

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. (Quote by - William Arthur Ward)

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable. (Quote by - Madeleine L'Engle)

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. (Quote by - Gertrude Stein)

It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. (Quote by - Douglas Engelbart)

A mark of maturity seems to be the range and extent of one's feeling of self-involvement in abstract ideals. (Quote by - Gordon Wallport)

If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness. (Quote by - M. Esther Harding)

Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting. (Quote by - Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero)

Maturity implies otherness... The art of living is the art of living with. (Quote by - Julius Gordon)

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words. (Quote by - Anthony Doerr)

I believe that the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification. (Quote by - Peggy Cahn)

To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes. (Quote by - Fritz Kunkel )

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