Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and…

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

— Hermann Hesse

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

— Helen Keller

India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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 think it is important to learn to distinguish between being childlike and being childish.

— Anonymous

It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant.…

— David Canary

“God sense little children to speak and act for him. In their simplicity and naivety they say and do things that we adults never…

— Phil Steer

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

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

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

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