Childishness Quotes

21 quotes by 19 authors

How many of us really appreciate the childishness of the unconscious mind? — Milton H. Erickson
What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way… — Elizabeth Bishop
There is no limit to childishness, if a person starts attacking the other one, they just strike back. Your weak point? Secret? They won't avoid… — Sun Yang
Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness. — William Shakespeare
C. S. Lewis pointed out that some people are angry with God for His not existing, and others for His existing but for failing to… — Neal A. Maxwell
It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our… — Sydney J. Harris
One cannot overstate the childishness of the ideas that feed and stir the masses. Real ideas must as a rule be simplified to the level… — Sebastian Haffner
I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that… — Ellen Key
Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, there's a certain something that you retain. It's the equivalent… — Walt Disney
Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a person… — Galileo Galilei
Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s.… — Martin Scorsese
All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not… — Albert Camus
All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the… — David Foster Wallace
Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans… — William Shakespeare
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I… — C.S. Lewis
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. — C.S. Lewis
It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child. — Isaac Asimov
When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless… — Roald Dahl
You must never lose that touch of childishness. You need it if you wish to write for children, if you wish to understand the heart… — Carolyn Haywood

Who Wrote These Childishness Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 21 Childishness Quotes as follows: