Infancy Quotes

• We tend to focus our attention at Christmas on the infancy of Christ.
  The greater truth of the holiday is His deity.
  More astonishing than a baby in the manger is the truth that this promised baby
  is the omnipotent Creator of the heavens and the earth!

  John F. MacArthur

  Christmas, Baby, Holiday

  John F. MacArthur (2006). “Truth for Today: A Daily Touch of God's Grace”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fear, Science, Infancy Is

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• Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Beauty, Women, Infancy Is

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 3 (1792)

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  Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

  George Santayana

  Past, Infancy Is, History

  "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress", Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense by George Santayana, 1905-1906.

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• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

  George Santayana

  Infancy Is, Progress, Savages

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.172, MIT Press

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• Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

  Bill Cosby

  Communication, Sisterhood, Men

  Bill Cosby (1989). “Love & Marriage”

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• Infancy conforms to nobody;
  all conform to it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.260, Library of America

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• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.

  George Santayana

  Change, Children, Persistence

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.172, MIT Press

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• The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

  Antonio Porchia

  Infancy Is, Brevity, Extremes

  "Voces". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.

  Herbert Read

  Adults, Problem, Forget

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.

  Karl Marx

  War, Hero, Debt

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• We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Infancy Is, Childhood, Action

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• On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Art, Responsibility, Hands

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• In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.

  Jack Kingston

  Leader, Democracy, Ethiopia

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• Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.

  William Lilly

  Talking, Years, Age

  William Lilly, Elias Ashmole (1822). “William Lilly's history of his life and times from the year 1602 to 1681”, p.17

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• Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy

  Samuel Rutherford

  Infancy Is, Grace, Glory

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.171

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• Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.

  Thomas Jane

  Couple, Years, Careers

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 20, 2004.

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• Finding that no religion was based upon facts, but that all of them were in opposition to facts, and could not therefore be true, I began to reflect upon what must be the condition of mankind, trained from infancy to believe in these errors, and to make them the rule of their conduct.

  Robert Owen

  Believe, Errors, Religion

  "Debate on the Evidences of Christianity".

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• We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

  R. D. Laing

  Infancy Is, Trance, Posts

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• I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.

  Tina Weymouth

  Ideas, People, Starting Over

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• Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

  Adam Clarke

  Mean, Men, Infancy Is

  Adam Clarke, Mrs. Richard Smith (1833). “An Account of the Infancy, Religious, and Literary Life of Adam Clarke ...: Written by One who was Intimately Acquainted with Him from His Boyhood to the Sixtieth Year of His Age”, p.18

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• A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

  Alice Meynell

  Children, Years, Infancy Is

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• Heaven lies about us in our infancy.

  William Wordsworth

  Baby, Lying, Heaven

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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• The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Mind, Periods, Primitive

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

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• Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

  Mary Astell

  Infancy Is, Want, Advantage

  1694 A Serious Proposal to the Ladies For the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest,'By a Lover of Her Sex', pt.1.

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