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More Childish Quotes

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• He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and… — Mikhail Bakunin
• At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life… — Drew Barrymore
• Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. — Isaiah Berlin
• Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and… — Annie Besant
• To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all.… — Samuel Butler
• To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess… — Henri Frederic Amiel
• Not every age is fit for childish sports. — Plautus
• An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been… — Sigmund Freud
• Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only… — Elizabeth Bowen
• No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away… — Francis Bacon
• It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. — Henry David Thoreau
• For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. — Albert Einstein

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