Jane Austen Quotes, Maturity Quotes, Self Quotes

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

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Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

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To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.

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Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you're supervised or not; finish a job once it's started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

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How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

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Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world's tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.

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Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being.

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Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

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When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.

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Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

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