Children Quote by Padraic Colum

“If you cannot or will not imagine the results of your actions, there’s no way you can act morally or responsibly. Little kids can’t…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is told that…

— Philip Wylie

I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.

— Richard Dawkins

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.

— Henry Williamson

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.

— Henry Williamson

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, as we wrongly think, but that the imagination lives in the child.

— Gaston Bachelard

If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child.

— Ossie Davis

The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more…

— Jean Piaget

Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that…

— Betty Smith

Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.

— Malachy McCourt

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“The qualities that make for excellence in children's literature can be summed up in a single word: imagination. And imagination as it relates to…

— Maurice Sendak