Children Quote by Svante Pääbo

“I’m always amazed when adults say that children “just did that to get attention”. Naturally children who need attention will do all kinds of…

— Anonymous

Children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them, and often outpicture the fears of their parents.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort…

— Plato

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his…

— Jean Piaget

“The busy lives people lead in the technologically driven culture that consumes our attention often produce a multitasking frenzy of activity that leaves people…

— Daniel J. Siegel

“High-reactive children pay what one psychologist calls “alert attention” to people and things. They literally use more eye movements than others to compare choices…

— Susan Cain

Most of us are taught from an early age to pay far more attention to signals coming from other people than from within. We…

— Nathaniel Branden

“Some social phobics find even positive attention to be aversive. Think of the young child who bursts into tears when guests sing “Happy Birthday”…

— Scott Stossel

I was just, as a child, very different from the others, and didn't really care what they thought because you know, a child doesn't…

— Philip Treacy

Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.

— Maria Montessori

“Young children by age three begin to inhibit some of their naturally altruistic behavior. They become more discriminating about whom they help. They share…

— Michael S. Gazzaniga

“We develop them over time. Beginning in childhood, we learned a series of conditioned responses that led us to react automatically (as in, without…

— Darren Hardy