Children Quote by Henry James

“...there was an extraordinary mute passage between her vision of this vision of his, his vision of her vision, and her vision of his…

— Henry James Samuel Guntrip

“It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.”

— Donna Woolfolk Cross

“and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.”

— Herman Melville

“What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The child understood vaguely that in taking up literature, he had entered a domain where he could rely on nothing beyond himself. ”

— Anonymous

“Our actions speak louder than our words with the young child, who cannot help but imitate. Through us, children learn whether or not their…

— Rahima Baldwin Dancy

“No, he hadn't known anything about children, but now he'd learned something: a child's mind is open to everything.”

— Carsten Jensen

“It was sometimes best, when you came to the mystery that was art, to come as a child. The child saw things that were…

— William Gibson

“From the earliest days, we knew that it was not possible to do good work with the little children without the help of their…

— Caroline Pratt

“This child, with his naive outlook on life was the compass which showed them the degree of their departure from what they knew but…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It seemed to him that he both knew too much to imagine [the child's] simplicity and too little to disembroil his tangle.”

— Henry James

“The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellence, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of…

— William Stolzenburg