Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish…

Talent should minister to genius.

— Robert Browning

“I don't respect thinking that is dangerous, prejudicial, childish, and could get me killed.”

— Bill Maher

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

— Anonymous

Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't…

— Douglas Adams

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

— Isaac Asimov

“Growing up is childish.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

— George W. S. Trow

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

“Mockery is childish, Beatrice,' She says. 'It does not become you'. 'Mockery is childish, Beatric,' I repeat in my best imitation of her voice.…

— Veronica Roth

When we're in that kind of childish space, we're more genuine and feel more comfortable with our friends.

— Evan Spiegel

“Age doesn’t make us childish, as they say, It finds that we’re still children.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“KINGDOM OF THE WOMB From her thighs, she gives you life And how you treat she who gives you life Shows how much you…

— Suzy Kassem

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment.

— Jean Piaget

I wasted my time on your childish games. But don't worry I will not even try to hate you.

— Cynthia F B Mora