Children Quotes by Aldous Huxley

“Conventions are stupid things; but even the children of the spirit must make some compromise with the world.”

— Aldous Huxley

“A people's theology reflects the state of it's children's bottoms.”

— Aldous Huxley

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

— Aldous Huxley

“You forget," I said, "I'm a writer and the Muses are the daughters of Memory.”

— Aldous Huxley

At ten, a child; at twenty, wild; at thirty, tame, if ever; at forty, wise; at fifty, rich; at sixty, good or…

— Aldous Huxley

“The secret of genius is to carry the child into old age.”

— Aldous Huxley

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

— Aldous Huxley

And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children; sometimes like the noise of lambs...

— Aldous Huxley

“I fell,” he repeated for the hundredth time. “But you didn’t fall very far,” Mary Sarojini now said. “No, I didn’t fall…

— Aldous Huxley

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re…

— Aldous Huxley

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

— Aldous Huxley

“I'd rather entrust my daughters to Casanova than my secrets to a novelist. Literary fires are hotter even than sexual ones.”

— Aldous Huxley

Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies foreseen…

— Aldous Huxley

Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so?…

— Aldous Huxley

“In real life there is no such person as the average man. There are only particular men, women and children, each with…

— Aldous Huxley

It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re…

— Aldous Huxley

“Visual impressions are greatly intensified and the eye recovers some of the perceptual innocence of childhood, when the sensum was not immediately…

— Aldous Huxley

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought…

— Aldous Huxley

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given…

— Aldous Huxley

“Till at last the child’s mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child’s mind. And not the…

— Aldous Huxley

“Till at last the child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child's mind. And not the…

— Aldous Huxley

“In the light of what we have recently learned about animal behavior in general, and human behavior in particular, it has become…

— Aldous Huxley

“Nataraja at play among the stars and in the atoms. But also,” he added, “also at play within every living thing, every…

— Aldous Huxley

You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy;…

— Aldous Huxley

Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific…

— Aldous Huxley

“We merely ask them," Mrs Narayan answered with a smile, "to attept the impossible. The children are told to translate their experience…

— Aldous Huxley

“And home was as squalid psychically as physically. Psychically, it was a rabbit hole, a midden, hot with the frictions of tightly…

— Aldous Huxley

Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta,…

— Aldous Huxley

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re…

— Aldous Huxley

“Home, home-a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls…

— Aldous Huxley

Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living…

— Aldous Huxley

Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to…

— Aldous Huxley