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“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.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”

“Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.”

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Author:Victor Hugo

“By the mercy of Allah Paradise has eight doors one of those is the door of repentance, child. All the others are sometimes open, sometimes shut, but the door of repentance is never closed. Come seize the opportunity: the door is open; carry your baggage there at once.”

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Author:Rumi

“Your Nafs is just like a suckling child. If you do not take the pains to wean him, he will yearn for his mother's breast even when he's grown up. Therefore you should not try to satisfy your lust by indulging in sins. This will only increase the desire for more sins. The same is the case with the disease of gluttony. The more a person eats, the more his hunger increases.”

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Author:Busiri

“The child must teach the man.”

Men Children Wisdom Teach He Man

Book:Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

“The question is, whether, like the Divine Child in the Temple, we are turning knowledge into wisdom, and whether, understanding more of the mysteries of life, we are feeling more of its sacred law; and whether, having left behind the priests and the scribes and the doctors and the fathers, we are about our Father's business, and becoming wise to God.”

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“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.”

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Book:Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran

Source: Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran