Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
—Pablo Picasso
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
—Albert Einstein
Instead of marrying in order to increase the number of children it would be far simpler to support the millions of children now dying everywhere.
—Leo Tolstoy
We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
—Heraclitus
As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.
—Carl Jung
Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
—Plato
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
—Oscar Wilde
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
—Cicero
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
—Sigmund Freud
Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.
—Aristotle
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
—Charles Darwin
There is truth in wine and children.
—Plato
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
—Plato
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
—Plato
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
—Plato
I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.
—Plato
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
—Plato
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
—Socrates
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
—Immanuel Kant
“Oh feeble child of God, the Lord taketh care of you! Your heavenly Father feedeth ravens, and guides the flight of sparrows: should he not much more care for you, oh ye of little faith?”
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
—Aristotle
Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.
—Aristotle
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
—Aristotle
O Thou that art fairer than the children of men, full of grace are Thy lips! Speak that I may see Thee! And as the shadows flee before the sun, so let all my idols vanish at Thy presence!
—John Wesley
The Church lives in a hostile world. The power of the Holy Spirit is, therefore, not optional but necessary. Without it the children of God simply cannot live the life of heaven on earth.
—AW Tozer
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
—Cicero
The Holy Spirit is not a luxury, not something added now and again to produce a deluxe type of Christian once in a generation. No, He is for every child of God a vital necessity
—AW Tozer
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
—Cicero
At the creation the morning stars sang, and all the children of God shouted with joy. At the birth of Christ a multitude of heavenly hosts raised a song of jubilation to God’s good pleasure.
—Herman Bavinck
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
—Isaac Newton