Adults Quote by Gareth B. Matthews

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

— Isaiah Berlin

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at…

— Michel de Montaigne

No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

— Anonymous

You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“I find many adults are put off when young children pose scientific questions. Why is the Moon round? the children ask. Why is grass…

— Carl Sagan

There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Children ask questions much more than adults do, and you have to wonder if this is something we have that we lose.

— Mark Kurlansky

Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so many parents and grandparents are sosure their progeny are…

— David Elkind

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I did not know that children think the hard questions they ask are easy and thus expect easy answers to them, and that they…

— Bernhard Schlink

Children often have been likened to scientists. Both ask fundamental questions about the nature of the universe. Both also ask innumerable questions that seem…

— Robert S. Siegler

“Ever since I was a little girl and could barely talk, the word 'why' has lived and grown along with me. It's a well-known…

— Anne Frank