Child Quote by Karl Abraham

When a child encounters something he or she does not want, that child has all kinds of maneuvers to avoid it, such as crying,…

— Tarthang Tulku

Children are very wise intuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.

— Anonymous

Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.

— Camille Paglia

What one tries to force into a child against its own nature will never come to good.

— Rebecca Goldstein

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

“Replace a goal of obedience with one of connection and trust instead. Children are drawn to follow those to whom they are emotionally connected.…

— Kelly Bartlett

All children are born pure egoists. They perceive their needs to the exclusion of all others. Only through socialization do they learn that some…

— Andrew Vachss

Children are just different from one another, especially in temperament. Some are shy, others bold; some active, others quiet; some confident, others less so.…

— Sandra Scarr

“Every observer has noted that the younger the child, the less sense he has of his own ego. From the intellectual point of view,…

— Jean Piaget

My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right…

— Boman Irani

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their…

— Maria Montessori

Children can be disciplined with love.

— Gordon B. Hinckley