Childlike Nature Quotes

Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.

I get on with kids and I feel that's because I am one.

There's no harm in me. Really, I'm just a big kid.

Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way-and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.

For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.

I think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike.

I'm really, basically, nine, and I've always been that. I've never, ever allowed the child within me to die.

Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

The Negro is essentially the child of the moment and his memory, both tribal and individual, is very short

I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long adult books, the kind with no pictures or conversations.

Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It is said that all great men are bound to retain some infantile part. Even as an adult he continued to play, and this was another reason why he often appeared uncanny and incomprehensible to his contemporaries.

My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways.

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

Great men have the nature of a child.

The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.

My little siblings keep me grounded. I'm a kid at heart.

Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!

I had a lot of fun with Val Kilmer. He's like a big kid.

I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.

I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek.'

[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet preserved this lovely character; and among our carpet interests and twopenny concerns, the shame were indelible if we should lose it. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.

I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.