To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the…

“The intellectual part of his nature was already effaced; he had power only to feel, and feeling was torment. He was conscious of motion.…

— Ambrose Bierce

The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced - that without…

— George Henry Lewes

Man reacts upon and toward the external universe in three ways, namely, by his active nature ; by his intellectual nature ; by his…

— Richard Maurice Bucke

A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is of necessity…

— Walter Bagehot

We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary,…

— Samuel Johnson

I like crazy, childlike, candy bar-filled cakes with gooey caramel, chocolate-covered nuts, marshmallows, and the like.

— Ron Ben-Israel

The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea

— Helen Keller

Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.

— Charles Ghigna

“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?”

— Roman Payne

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound…

— Francis Pharcellus Church

Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.

— Hermann Hesse

My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or…

— Saint Augustine

I’m cold,' Snowden said softly, 'I’m cold.' 'You’re going to be all right, kid,' Yossarian reassured him with a grin. 'You’re going to be…

— Joseph Heller

You've had a whole lot of experience, but everything is also radically new at each moment, and you have to bring a kind of…

— Jean Houston