Infancy Quotes · Page 4

I fear theology is--in the words attributed to William Temple--"still in its infancy" when it comes to animals.

— Andrew Linzey

Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

— Blaise Pascal

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.

— Sigmund Freud

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth…

— Karl Abraham

The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

— Agnes Repplier

The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.

— Christopher Hitchens

Every generation rediscovers and re-evaluates the meaning of infancy and childhood.

— Arnold Gesell

When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through…

— Thomas Southerne

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in…

— Alice Meynell

At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on…

— Simone Weil

You cannot apply your high standards to a country [Egypt] burdened with decades of autocratic rule. Our democracy is still in its…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair;…

— Charlotte Bronte

Tis aye a solemn thing to me To look upon a babe that sleeps-- Wearing in its spirit-deeps The unrevealed mystery Of…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words…

— Michel de Montaigne

As kings are begotten and born like other men, it is to be presumed that they are of the human species; and…

— Lord Chesterfield

Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end,…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

We could almost believe that we are destined by Providence to an unsettled position on the globe, so invariably is a love…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although…

— John Keats

There is something so tender about this to me, about being willing to have your makeup wash off, your eyes tear up,…

— Anne Lamott

The search for the lessons of the new science is still in progress, really in its infancy. In this realm, three is…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

To some degree, the critic arises out of that negativity bias in that our brains are oriented towards threat and toward survival.…

— Mark Coleman

... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large…

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

There's a part in every person that has a fake self. We've had this since infancy due to our parents and our…

— Benjamin Clementine

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.

— Albert Einstein

Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

— Mary Astell

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

— James Mark Baldwin

My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.

— John Locke

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

— Vinoba Bhave

I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.

— Michelle Bachelet

Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people.

— Brian Tracy

The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which…

— Jon Franklin

Our days, our deeds, all we achieve or are, Lay folded in our infancy; the things Of good or ill we choose…

— John Townsend Trowbridge

It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.

— Baron d'Holbach

This love for everyday things, part natural from the wide eye of Infancy, part a literary calculation

— Billy Collins

The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ . . . Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true…

— Pope Leo I

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

— Ambrose Bierce