Alison Gopnik

From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.

American Psychologist

John Shelby Spong

Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.

American Clergyman

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

American President

Immanuel Kant

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

German Philosopher

Jann Wenner

There's a level of immaturity to people who just can't clean up after themselves.

American Publisher

Edwin Louis Cole

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

American Author

Vera Brittain

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

English Writer

Dave Barry

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

American Journalist

Emmanuel Macron

I am proud of my immaturity and political inexperience.

French Politician

Mason Cooley

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

American Writer

Use 'immaturity' to describe someone who hasn't reached full physical development.

Physical Growth

Relate 'immaturity' to various stages of growth, not just age.

Developmental Stages

Use 'immaturity' when actions don't match the expected behavior for one's age.

Age-Appropriate

Highlight 'immaturity' in situations where grown-up behavior is expected.

Serious Contexts

Suggest that 'immaturity' can hinder professional advancement or perception.

Professionalism

Connect 'immaturity' with poor decisions due to inexperience.

Decision Making

Explain that 'immaturity' often reduces with age and more life experience.

Wisdom With Age

Note that 'immaturity' isn't always bad; it can indicate a potential to grow.

Not Always Negative

 and that is a very good thing. Why not value those impurities and uncertainties? Maybe clinging to pure identities is a sign of immaturity, and ethnic, nationalist and religious traditions are bad for you. Why not be skeptical about every primordial origin claim

Dare to refuse the...

 software civil liberties activists say it might be time to rethink those applications at a minimum congress should pass a moratorium on the police use of facial recognition as the capacity for abuse lack of oversight and technical immaturity poses too great

The Battle for the Soul...

 humanity's emergence from a self-imposed immaturity a self-imposed in Detroit the maturity due to lack of courage lack of courage to think for yourself as opposed to letting other people think