Jostein Gaarder Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us--but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensory experience.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Children, Growing Up, Long

  Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.361, Macmillan

• Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth to the child, but she is there to help during its delivery. Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to 'give birth' to correct insight, since real understanding must come from within. . . . Everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Mother, Art, Children

• If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Children, Drawing, Pieces

• The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Children, Responsibility, Important

• ...long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A pity, if you ask me.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Children, Thinking, Long

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.23, Hachette UK

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