Childlike Quotes · Page 3

Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Acting is a childlike thing. To act well, you have to be childlike in order to free yourself.

— Laurence Fishburne

Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Helen Keller

Whatever you choose, do it fully-with passion and childlike enthusiasm.

— Mehmet Oz

There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.

— Franz Kafka

I have a lot of things [in me] that are childlike and innocent and sweet.

— George Carlin

I don't like the idea of [having] a thick skin. I think we [should] be more childlike.

— Arianna Huffington

A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth…

— Alfred Stieglitz

The great geniuses are those who have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.

— Alfred Stieglitz

It takes a childlike heart to feel the promptings of the Spirit, to surrender to those commands, and to obey. That is…

— Henry B. Eyring

I love the energy of children. It makes me feel young. I'm just drawn to them. They're like magic to me. And…

— Dolly Parton

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with…

— Saint Augustine

What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.

— Todd Burpo

I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination,…

— Iris Apfel

Often admitting our weakness and fear is the first step to finding rest in God. Our trust in Him isn't conveyed though…

— Tracie Peterson

The most consistent characteristic of awakened teachers and people I have met is a childlike nature. They laugh, cry, twinkle, and joke,…

— Catherine Ingram

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we…

— Paulo Freire

“I had been very grown-up when I was in primary school. But as I continued through secondary-school, I in fact became less…

— Hiroki Kawakami

The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of…

— Derek Jarman

The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of…

— Erich Maria Remarque

When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of…

— Kate Bernheimer

It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me.…

— Simon Sinek

Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest,…

— Vivian Gornick

In a recent dream, God revealed to me a door leading us into four new hopes that will prepare us to be…

— Bob Hartley

The real you is still a little child who never grew up. Sometimes that little child comes out when you are having…

— Anonymous

[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall,…

— Jacob Bronowski

The barbarians, who possessed no books, no secular knowledge, no education, except in the schools of the clergy, and who had scarcely…

— Lord Acton

[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Bonnie who had never hurt a - a harmless thing for malice. Bonnie who was like a kitten making airy pounces at…

— Anonymous

The child, in danger of the fire, just clings to the fireman, and trusts to him alone. She raises no question about…

— Charles Spurgeon

Right after the 9/11 attacks I was living near Oakland in California with a buddy who had also grown up in the…

— Rick Remender

We need to remain childlike. Children don't dream of being insignificant.

— Bill Johnson

Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.

— Anthony Minghella

I think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike.

— Bob Newhart

Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

— Beck

Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.

— Catherine Doherty

Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up.

— Randy Pausch

I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.

— Alan Price