Children Quote by Dorothea Brande

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Genius is the capacity to retrieve childhood at will.”

— Erik Wahl

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

— Arthur Rimbaud

Genius is childhood recaptured.

— Jean Baudrillard

Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling.

— Hans Hofmann

Genius: the ability to prolong one's childhood.

— Anonymous

Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

— Charles Baudelaire

A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.

— Charles Baudelaire

Children share with geniuses an open, inquiring, uninhibited quality of mind.

— Chauncey Guy Suits

Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.

— Ouida

The great geniuses are those who have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.

— Alfred Stieglitz