Childlike Quotes

You can be childlike without being childish.

— Christopher Meloni

Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing...

— Grace Noll Crowell

Be like children , Not childish BUT childlike.

— Michael Jackson

The great person never loses a childlike spirit.

— Mencius

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

— Charles Fillmore

I've always tried to retain that childlike wonder.

— Rolf Harris

I have a childlike spirit.

— Jeannie Mai

I am too childlike to be immature.

— Lee Siegel

“The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then.

— Kanye West

The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.

— H. L. Mencken

I can make rhymes. My style of writing is kind of childlike anyway.

— Tim Minchin

A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.

— Friedrich Schiller

“Ask God to give you childlike faith, removing any barriers to having a closer walk with him.”

— Anonymous

A lot of the stuff I tweet is out of childlike curiosity.

— David Grann

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

— Brennan Manning

I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that…

— Shirley MacLaine

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

— Ron Ben-Israel

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are…

— Bill Bryson

I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.

— Brian Baumgartner

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and…

— Honore de Balzac

I think the Hulk has always appealed very strongly to much younger readers than Spider-Man, because Spider-Man is an adolescent character, and…

— Kurt Busiek

It's like a kind of Barbie American dream. I have that childlike quality so a lot of little girls especially [like me].…

— Paris Hilton

As a female actress - I've been doing this since I was a teenager - I often got approached with the ingenue…

— Jessica Henwick

Pray a little each day in a childlike way for the Spirit of prayer. If you feel that you know, as yet,…

— Ole Hallesby

I know that part of why I was excited to do this was the sense of play and childlike wonder and the…

— Paul Dano

We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people…

— Oswald Chambers

I'm more interested in the idea of role-playing in general than the idea of role-playing in art. I like the childlike quality…

— Laurel Nakadate

“God sense little children to speak and act for him. In their simplicity and naivety they say and do things that we…

— Phil Steer

By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear…

— Alan Watts

Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always…

— C. S. Lewis

There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of…

— Michael Ondaatje

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the…

— Douglas MacArthur

Certainly as actors, and maybe as directors, you've got to hang on to something childlike. You've got to know what play is.…

— Alan Rickman

“To seek truth requires one to ask the right questions. Those void of truth never ask about anything because their ego and…

— Suzy Kassem

It can sometimes be a hearbreaking struggle for us to arrive at a place where we are no longer afraid of the…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done,…

— Anonymous

The Great Society went wrong for three major reasons. First, the self-organization the Johnson administration promoted turned out to be not the…

— David Frum

“A friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter,…

— Todd Burpo

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

— Francis Pharcellus Church