Adults Quote by Dennis Potter Download Open image “As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.” — Dennis Potter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adults Callous Enough People
Adults are just kids who have spent a little more time on this earth. — Valentin Chmerkovskiy Copy Share Image
To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads screwed on a lot better. — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I think it just helps to be very aware that fundamentally, there are no adults. Everyone is making it up as they go along.… — Naval Ravikant Copy Share Image
You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
It is my belief that children are full of understanding and know as much as and more than adults, until they are about seven,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
I think there has been this increasing misperception that kids will not respond to something because it's also for adults. I think that often… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Many adults, whether consciously or unconsciously, find it beneath their adult dignity to do anything as childish as read a book, think a thought,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
I think adults sometimes don't think about how children are feeling about the adult problems. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
The thing about hitting kids is, think about if you were doing the same thing to another adult. Hitting your kid is really the… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child withinus--i.e.,… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
I do not believe in public shaming. I do believe that young adults go to college to learn things, and that this process will… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is,… — K. Anders Ericsson Copy Share Image
Part of life is doing stuff that you don't want to do. — One Who Does Not Wish To Be Named Copy Share Image
He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image