Children Quote by Carl Sagan

“The possibility of judgment being passed on me supplanted any worries or questions I might have about Russell. At that age, I was, first…

— Emma Cline

“In the 1990s, Miraca Gross studied children who were radically accelerated, starting college between eleven and sixteen. None regretted the acceleration, and most had…

— Andrew Solomon

“Do not forget that children are like rainbows; they come in an array of personalities, levels of resiliency, and a variety of temperaments.”

— Asa Don Brown

“Most of our children are not prodigies, or even particularly gifted in any one field, but they all have the potential to shine as…

— Barbara Lourie Sand

“In those days, you must understand, children were basically thought to be inadequate adults. A child’s nature was not something that could be developed,…

— Andrew Davidson

“Linda Kreger Silverman describes giftedness as follows: Gifted children and adults see the world differently because of the complexity of their thought processes and…

— Philip Wylie

“It talked about the isolation felt by gifted young people whose social skills could not keep up with their intellects and who were often…

— Dan Brown

Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became…

— Anonymous

To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What we found was that the greater proportion of process praise, the more likely the child was to have a mindset five years later…

— Carol S. Dweck

“The young can't help playacting; themselves incomplete, they are thrust by life into a completed world where they are compelled to act fully grown.…

— Milan Kundera

“A child doesn't have to be a prodigy. The only thing that matters is that he should't become 'stuck' in childishness”

— Andrei Tarkovsky