Empathy Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical…

— Padraic Colum

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

“Don't harness a child's imagination, encourage it so it knows no bounds!”

— K. Lamb

“Let your child see you doing a good deed instead of you telling him or her to do it, and the little child shall…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Children enter the world with a great deal of love and trust. They are not yet able to perceive good and bad, but they…

— Rahima Baldwin Dancy

“So our job as parents is not to make a particular kind of child. Instead, our job is to provide a protected space of…

— Alison Gopnik

“You know, Daddy, I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in…

— Jean Webster

For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose intellectual development…

— Selma Fraiberg

“If we are to use the words ‘childish’ and ‘infantile’ as terms of disapproval, we must make sure that they refer only to those…

— C.S. Lewis

The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the…

— Alison Lurie

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“imagination is a form of flagellation if a sensitive child lets it run wild ...”

— Noël Coward lyric