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“Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.”

Term Adults Treats Critics Approval Childishness Childish Things

Book:Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories

Source: Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories

“It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.”

Knows Believe Mean Moments Accepting Oneself Useless Insanity Blindness Eccentricity Knowing Oneself Childishness

Book:Best of Sydney J. Harris

Source: Best of Sydney J. Harris

“One cannot overstate the childishness of the ideas that feed and stir the masses. Real ideas must as a rule be simplified to the level of a child's understanding if they are to arouse the masses to historic actions. A childish illusion, fixed in the minds of all children born in a certain decade and hammered home for four years, can easily reappear as a deadly serious political ideology twenty years later.”

Source: Defying Hitler: A Memoir

“I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful innocence. Elderly people are often much more romantic than younger people, and sometimes even more adventurous, having begun to realize how many things they do not know.”

People Knows Men Sometimes Grows Realizing Wise Aging Innocence Attractive Old Man Cheerful Elderly Adventurous Childishness

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Develop a childlike fascination with life and people.”

People Fascination Childlike Childishness

Author:Jim Rohn

“Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.”

Term Childhood Adults Concerned Treats Mark Critics Admire Approval Suspicion Adolescence Childishness Childish Things

Book:Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories

Source: Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories

“For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.”

Firsts Mean Children Doe Taken Conditions Baby Training Oneself Condescending Childishness Baby Talk

Book:The Century of the Child

Source: The Century of the Child