Boys Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience, if we…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Who is more foolish—the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? —MAURICE FREEHILL”

— Dean Koontz

“As the wise say, a sensible man looks after his garden, and a coward looks after his money; a just man cares about his…

— Angélica Gorodischer

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.

— Huangbo Xiyun

“There is no credulity more blind, no ignorance more childish, that that of the sage who tries to measure “heaven and earth and the…

— Alastair Gunn

The wisest man may be a blind father.

— Jules Verne

“The discovery of the little child is that he is the only one to see what is. While the adults, the scholars, the experts,…

— Grothendieck [ FA ] Alexander

Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it. They are…

— John Stuart Mill

“Two people who know they do not understand each other, breeding children whom they do not understand and who will never understand them.”

— T.S. Eliot

“When a man possesses the innocence of a child, we call him a fool. When a child possesses the cunning of a man, we…

— R. Scott Bakker

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone…

— Marshall McLuhan