Maturity Loss Quotes

Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

All children, except one, grow up.

Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.

What has happened to the adult human?

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.

I was always quite mature as a child and as I get older I'm regressing.

Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.

The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes. The adolescent offers nothing, can do nothing, say nothing that the adult cannot do better.