Childish Quotes

301 quotes by 267 authors

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. — Mikhail Bakunin
At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical.… — Drew Barrymore
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. — Isaiah Berlin
Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy… — Annie Besant
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is… — Samuel Butler
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Not every age is fit for childish sports. — Plautus
An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew,… — Sigmund Freud
Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but… — Elizabeth Bowen
No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions,… — Francis Bacon
It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. — Henry David Thoreau
For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. — Albert Einstein
See what your misery is, what desires are causing it, and why you are clinging to those desires. And it is not for the first… — Rajneesh
Modern art is childish - not childlike, remember, childish; not innocent but stupid, insane, pathological. We have to get rid of this trend. We have… — Rajneesh
I think I really believed my childish thoughts back then. Using the determination of the poor, the childish thought that I can do it if… — Kim Young-kwang
For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and of doubtful value.… — Tycho Brahe
Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You… — Henry Bromell
I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere… — Susanna Wesley
It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy. — Thomas Hood
...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the… — Thomas Piketty

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