Childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a…

“If you'd only let me come by myself, none of this would have happened. Having you around makes everything worse.' She buried her head…

— Natalie Standiford

“Many adults have not attained maturity — have not mastered being independent, self-motivated individuals capable of tending their own emotional needs and of respecting…

— Gabor Maté

“I wondered what a man I had encountered the day before on the plane en route to Chicago's O'Hare airport would have made of…

— Robert Moss

One cannot overstate the childishness of the ideas that feed and stir the masses. Real ideas must as a rule be simplified to the…

— Sebastian Haffner

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

— Isaac Asimov

It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a…

— Galileo Galilei

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

— William Shakespeare

A problem with my novels is that they, from the start, have been infantile and incredibly childish. There are childishness, stupidity, lack of wisdom,…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste,…

— William Shakespeare

“On Three Ways of Writing for Children”: When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I…

— Gretchen Rubin

Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, there's a certain something that you retain. It's the…

— Walt Disney

“There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Trump taught us how easily seemingly serious people can become profoundly idiotic. He turned career politicians into circus freaks.”

— Thor Benson

Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition…

— Colin Wilson