Anything Quote by Alexandra Petri

People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.

— Muriel Barbery

There are some things children cannot know, because once they learn them they are no longer children.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

— Margaret Mead

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

— Keith Haring

Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see.

— Jonathan Kozol

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.

— Karl Pilkington

Grown people know that they do not always know the why of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know…

— Zora Neale Hurston

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information…

— Sugata Mitra

From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense…

— W. Somerset Maugham

As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

— Anonymous

It is my belief that children are full of understanding and know as much as and more than adults, until they are about seven,…

— Doris Lessing