Amount Quote by Sigmund Freud

I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.

— Bob Keeshan

Play is the work of the child.

— Maria Montessori

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

— Heraclitus

For children, play is exceedingly seriously & important

— Fred Rogers

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really…

— Fred Rogers

“It is marvelous to see the raw play of emotions on the face of a child. No trying to conceal any feeling or disguise…

— Jessica Brockmole

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

— Michel de Montaigne

Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially true of…

— David Elkind

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

— Michel de Montaigne

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

— Joni Mitchell

“[There are] games children must conjure up to combat an awful fact of childhood: the fact of their vulnerability to fear, anger, hate and…

— Maurice Sendak