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Children Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than…
- One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in…
- A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic…
- Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, while the creative individual cannot…
- The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human…
- Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
- The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin,…
- It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
- Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
- Children are the keys of paradise.
- It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding…
- The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of…
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- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits… — Ezra Taft Benson
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh
- Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the… — Frederick Lenz
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster