Childlike Quotes

143 Childlike quotes by 122 unique authors

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past… — John Updike
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is… — Albert Einstein
I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost… — Bill Bryson
But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't… — Bill Bryson
They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things… — Michael Ondaatje
Once born into childlike faith, brimming with belief, typical people begin to lose their faith. Society mocks them. Their friends smirk. They come to change… — Ted Dekker
Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the… — Czeslaw Milosz
He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming… — Hermann Hesse
A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to be charming because… — Robertson Davies
â€¦their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been… — John Muir
Often admitting our weakness and fear is the first step to finding rest in God. Our trust in Him isn't conveyed though superhuman confidence as… — Tracie Peterson
The Wizard Of Oz" has secrets that are just too much. Or "Peter Pan" â€“ the whole 'lost boys' thing is just incredible. Theyâ€™re not… — Michael Jackson
He ordered food with a childlike glee and watched me eat, tasting it as I did. In private he'd roll on his back like a… — Laurell K. Hamilton
The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be… — Osamu Dazai
Alice started to cry. It came with no sound, no shuddering, no childlike hysterics, just a soul-deep release that turned into moisture and dripped down… — Kristin Hannah
Iâ€™m cold,' Snowden said softly, 'Iâ€™m cold.' 'Youâ€™re going to be all right, kid,' Yossarian reassured him with a grin. 'Youâ€™re going to be all… — Joseph Heller
Butler,â€ he called, his voice thin and childlike in the wind. â€œYes, Artemis, what?â€ â€œIf something goes wrong, wait for me. No matter how it… — Eoin Colfer
To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplaceâ€”the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be… — George MacDonald
I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so childlike and mysterious.… — Hermann Hesse

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