“ It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy. ”
- Thomas Hood- Copy
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“ Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
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“ When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and divinity fudge-egg whites, sugar and pecans, mostly. It was a lark then and I always associate divinity fudge with snowstorms. ”
- Eudora Welty- Copy
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“ Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see. ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
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“ There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. ”
- Doctor Who- Copy
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“ As long as I continue to hear "normal" people telling me I am too childish, I know I'm doing just fine. ”
- Wayne Dyer- Copy
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“ I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish. ”
- Françoise Sagan- Copy
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“ Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
- 384
“ We are very much aware that many Israeli schools are not obeying the law to commemorate the assassination. ”
- Yitzhak Rabin- Copy
- 182
“ He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. ”
- Mikhail Bakunin- Copy
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“ Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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“ Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. ”
- Isaiah Berlin- Copy
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“ Democracy is based upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even half-wits would argue it to pieces. ”
- H.L. Mencken- Copy
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“ We used some juveniles, gave them some money, used the juveniles to purchase alcohol several of these locations. ”
- Wendell Johnson- Copy
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“ There is so much natural bloom (juvenile oyster stock) in the water,... We try to optimize the culture methods. ”
- Roger Williams- Copy
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“ To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
- 375
“ I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing. ”
- Horace Walpole- Copy
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“ Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck. ”
- Aleister Crowley- Copy
- 780
“ It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child. ”
- Frederick Buechner- Copy
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“ Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays. ”
- Johann Friedrich von Schiller- Copy
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“ For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. ”
- Albert Ellis- Copy
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