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“It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery... Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.”

Ifs Knows Children Reason Facts Natural Wonder Too Much Higher Adults Logic Bravery Rate Cancer Cures Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Cynical Fearful Ontology Resigned

Author:Lance Armstrong

“Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.”

Ifs Needs Children Littles Happens Too Much Balance Exposed Censorship

Author:Zoe Saldana

“Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.”

Children Littles Parent Too Much

Book:Two Worlds and Their Ways

Source: Two Worlds and Their Ways

“Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.”

Way Firsts Children Language Given Ability Effort Too Much Praise Drawing Crude

Book:Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

Source: Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

“Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much.”

Thinking Way May Children Has Beens Seems Would Be Mother Father Family Boys Too Much Expecting Inadequate Mother Love Unloved

Author:Frank Pittman

“I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little to the positive merit of enjoying their company.”

Thinking Children Littles Enjoy Company Virtue Too Much Modern Negative Importance Educational Merit Interfere Theorists

Book:In praise of idleness: and other essays

Source: In praise of idleness: and other essays

“The majority of parents are poor psychologists and give their children the most questionable moral trainings. It is perhaps in this domain that one realized most how keenly how immoral it can be to believe too much in morality, and how much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.”

World Giving Believe Children Littles Humanity Parent Poor Moral Too Much Morality Training Majority Immoral Domain Psychologist Questionable

Author:Jean Piaget