"Children tend to be rather better observers of……" — Allan Bloom
"Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults that it is very much in their interest to discover the weaknesses of their elders."
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58 Quotes by Allan Bloom
Allan Bloom has 58 quotes on this site.
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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is…
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Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds…
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Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How…
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Education is the movement from darkness to light.
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them…
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Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that…
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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments…
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Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired…
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Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always…
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As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
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Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I…
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard…
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When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably…
— Drew Barrymore
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If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids…
— Mario Batali
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
— Martha Beck
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
— Martha Beck
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise…
— Martha Beck
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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