Quotes of Infantile - somelinesforyou

“ I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. Birds of the air will tell of murders past. I am asham'd to hear such fooleries! ”

- Christopher Marlowe

“ 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. ”

- Bible

“ 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

“ Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism. ”

- Emil Cioran

“ 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

“ 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

“ Not every age is fit for childish sports. ”

- Thomas Brackett Reed

“ There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. ”

- Doctor Who

“ As long as I continue to hear "normal" people telling me I am too childish, I know I'm doing just fine. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish. ”

- Françoise Sagan

“ 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

“ 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

“ We are very much aware that many Israeli schools are not obeying the law to commemorate the assassination. ”

- Yitzhak Rabin

“ He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. ”

- Mikhail Bakunin

“ Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint. ”

- Robert Browning

“ Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. ”

- Isaiah Berlin

“ 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

“ We used some juveniles, gave them some money, used the juveniles to purchase alcohol several of these locations. ”

- Wendell Johnson

“ There is so much natural bloom (juvenile oyster stock) in the water,... We try to optimize the culture methods. ”

- Roger Williams

“ 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

“ 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

“ Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic — I mean my motion. ”

- Ezra

“ I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck. ”

- Aleister Crowley

“ 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

“ When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. ”

- Bible

“ If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child. ”

- Frederick Buechner

“ Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays. ”

- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

“ For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. ”

- Albert Ellis
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