“Mais c'est renfantillage - this is childishness!' we heard de Grandin pant as we closed in and sought a chance to seize… — Seabury Quinn Copy Share Image
A problem with my novels is that they, from the start, have been infantile and incredibly childish. There are childishness, stupidity, lack… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“Perhaps there is nothing wrong with being childish and naïve. Perhaps naivety is simply the unwillingness to learn one’s lesson. It is… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“With President Trump, however, the masculine archetype seems to have regressed. Trump is less the strict father than the petulant child: a… — Amanda Hess Copy Share Image
Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“I am sure you have come across older people who behave like children. They want everything, whine for attention, bitch about the… — Saidi Mdala Copy Share Image
“..en av os bondestudenter som er blit skadet indvortes ved å bli overflyttet til fremmed jord og atmosfære, han er en liten… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity. — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
“When one came to know them it was surprising how childish grown people could be.” — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Im sorry but I will manage my anger when you manage your childishness. — Nina Ardianti Copy Share Image
How many of us really appreciate the childishness of the unconscious mind? — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
“I felt like a child. I was a child. I could blow things up but I couldn't put things back together.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
C. S. Lewis pointed out that some people are angry with God for His not existing, and others for His existing but… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Being immature is one thing, but acting childish is a whole different category. Immaturity is a phase, childishness is a choice. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Tough men are tough not because they want to be tough, but because they have to be tough. Outgrow the adolescent fawning… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Your mama coming back. Just cause you cant sees a person aint mean nothing. They still there. You worry you never gonna… — Nancy Rawles Copy Share Image
“One finds pleasure in childish enough things, and it is too bad to destroy such a pleasure when, by simply leaving it… — Alexandre Dumas fils Copy Share Image
“Is it faith? Or is it simply childishness, expecting to be loved for doing your bidden task? It is, if you’re looking… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
In trying to explain our political paralysis, analysts cite President Obama's tactical missteps, the obstinacy of congressional Republicans, rising partisanship in Washington,… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
“Well, I ask the impartial reader, is it not childishness, and more than that, dangerous childishness? Is it not inevitable that we… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
“There’s a huge difference between being childlike and being childish. When we embrace joy and look at the world with fresh eyes… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Human beings go through a 'camel phase' during which they carry all the foolish prejudices society burdens them with. Then comes the… — O.Z. Livaneli Copy Share Image
“I am not a simpleton', he said, 'nor am I a childish old man. I dislike childishness and all such rubbish. I… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
There is no limit to childishness, if a person starts attacking the other one, they just strike back. Your weak point? Secret?… — Sun Yang Copy Share Image
“It is the importance of this quality of generosity in fiction that requires a measure of childishness in the writer. People who… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
The concept of 'Momism' is male nonsense. It is the refuge of a man seeking excuses for his own lack of virility.… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Obedient to no man, dependent only on weather and season, without a goal before them or a roof above them, owning nothing,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Out of curiosity, when do I grow up and become a fullfledged man with a penis?” “When words like ‘hump day’ don’t… — Dani Alexander Copy Share Image
It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
“Infantilism, the main characteristic of today's "developed societies", animalizes man by humanizing animals, enslaves man by "liberating" nature and stupefies man by… — Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski Copy Share Image
![“Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a person of independent genius, [but he] became interested in the action of the moon on the water, and in other occult phenomena, and similar childishness.” quote by Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/96d/galileo-galilei-2377_action_among-the-great-men-who-have-philosophiz_131150.jpg)
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