Clarence Darrow Quotes

The more intelligent our children, the better our lives and the richer our culture will be.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid as well. I think that's something you might have to consider.

All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons, and it’s an absolute toss-up, isn’t it? If one could only invent them, like characters in books, it would be much more satisfactory to a well-regulated mind.

Kids are so shrewd.

Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.

Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.

If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

Realizing that my children are the center of the universe and not me is probably one of the greatest ways to acclimatize.

The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish.

The child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason that beliefs are transmitted so easily from parent to child.

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

It is interesting that amongst children of preschool age, the more intelligent ones tend to sleep less than the dull ones. After the age of seven this relationship is reversed, the more intelligent schoolchildren sleeping more than the dull ones.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

The children of childish parents age quickly.

One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be explained and worked through intelligently (though they have tried to stay equable). I've noticed this is often the time when children begin calling their parents by their first names, becoming little ironists after their parents' faults. What could be lonelier for a parent than to be criticized by his child on a first-name basis?

Like any good parent you are trying to get the kid in a position where he is stronger and more powerful, and able to achieve things that you couldn't.