327 Quotes About Adults

Adulthood is an attempt to become the antithesis of the wounded child within us.

Most adults are adults all over except between their ears.

Adults often treat each other as children, and children as adults.

Most adults have dropped out of the school of life before they reached adulthood.

The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.

The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.

Most adults are knowledgeable to a child, but ignorant for their age.

[One way] researchers sometimes evaluate people's judgments is to compare those judgments with those of more mature or experienced individuals. This method has its limitations too, because mature or experienced individuals are sometimes so set in their ways that they can't properly evaluate new or unique conditions or adopt new approaches to solving problems.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.