“Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.” WayKindChildrenSelfWisdomInterestConsciousnessWiseHavensBuddhismInnocenceSelf ConsciousnessVested Interests Author:Frederick Lenz
“There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.” FeelsChildrenLittlesSelfConsciousnessFindingsCapableLosingStrikesSelf Consciousness Author:Carson McCullers
“The Children's Justice Campaign reminds us of our sacred obligation as adults to raise ourselves into consciousness so that our children may thrive.” MayChildrenJusticeConsciousnessAdultsOur ChildrenRaisesSacredCampaignsObligationThrive Author:Shefali Tsabary
“I think Nature, if she interests herself much about her children, must often feel that, like the miserable Frankenstein, with her experimenting among the elements of humanity, she has brought beings into existence who have no business here; who can do none of her work, and endure none of her favours; whose life is only suffering; and whose action is one long protest against the ill foresight which flung them into consciousness.” IfsThinkingFeelsChildrenLongActionLife IsSufferingHumanityInterestCan DoExistenceConsciousnessElementsEndureIllMiserableProtestFavourForesight Book:The Nemesis of Faith Source: The Nemesis of Faith
“Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.” MayChildrenActionBornConsciousnessDeedsIndestructible Book:Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
“[Children are] like talking animals. Their consciousness is so different from ours that they constitute a different species. They don't have to be particularly interesting children; just the fact that they are children is sufficient. They don't know what anything is, so they have to make it up. No matter how dull they are, they still have to figure things out for themselves.” KnowsChildrenStillsDifferentMatterFactsAnimalInterestingConsciousnessTalkingFiguresSpeciesSufficientDull Author:Fran Lebowitz