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"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."
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"Let your judgements have their own quiet, undisturbed development, which must, like all progress, come from deep within, and cannot in any way be pressed or hurried."
"When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things."
"It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time."
"Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard."
"Is it not a sign of immaturity to wish for someone's downfall? To wish that he or she fails at whatever productive endeavours they are aiming at? Wishing to be the only one succeeding, while everyone else fails?It's a world where we are all dependent on one another, one way or the other; and trade is happening at a much more sophisticated level than ever before. It is to our collective benefit for people to succeed."
"A man learns with age, if he is lucky."
"When do you become a man? When you become your own man. When other men trust you to do a man's work. Trust you with their name, their reputation, their thoughts. Trust you to watch their backs and trust you with their lives."
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"Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum."
"Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions."
"Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage."
"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."
"No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious."
"It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish."
"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates."
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