Infancy Quotes - Page 4

• Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Powerful, Maturity, Empires

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• Poor teaching leads to the inevitable idea that the subject (mathematics) is only adapted to peculiar minds, when it is the one universal science and the one whose four ground-rules are taught us almost in infancy and reappear in the motions to the universe.

  Henry John Stephen Smith

  Teaching, School, Taught Us

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• I am as true as truth's simplicity,
  And simpler than the infancy of truth.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Simplicity, Constancy

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 2, l. [176]

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• They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens. The remarkably adult yet innocent expression of their open and serene eyes is very memorable. All intelligence seems reflected in them. They suggest not merely the purity of infancy, but a wisdom clarified by experience. Such an eye was not born when the bird was, but is coeval with the sky it reflects. The woods do not yield another such a gem.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Memorable, Sky

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.147, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Human life has no meaning independent of itself. There is no cosmic force or deity to give it meaning or significance. There is no ultimate destiny for man. Such a belief is an illusion of humankind's infancy. The meaning of life is what we choose to give it. Meaning grows out of human purposes alone. Nature provides us with an infinite range of opportunities, but it is only our vision and our action that select and realize those that we desire.

  Paul Kurtz

  Independent, Opportunity, Destiny

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• I fear theology is--in the words attributed to William Temple--"still in its infancy" when it comes to animals.

  Andrew Linzey

  Animal, Temples, Theology

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• The audience has realized how much money the studios make from games now. They're making more money from games than they are from feature films. I mean this is a massive industry. It's still in its infancy. So I really feel lucky to be a part of it.

  Kevin Conroy

  Mean, Games, Lucky

  Source: screenrant.com

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• The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy.

  Mason Cooley

  Sound, Littles, Joyous

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• I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult.

  David Gordon Green

  Years, Desire, Adults

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we wouldn't have millions of successful adoptions to consider. I do think that it's harder to love a child when you come into that child's life after the unrequited passion of infancy and early childhood has passed.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Passion, Successful

  "‘Impossible Pursuits’ on film: A Q&A with Ayelet Waldman". Interview with Katie Hafner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2011.

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• From early infancy, it appears that our ability to regulate emotional states depends upon the experience of feeling that a significant person in our life is simultaneously experiencing a similar state of mind.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Emotional, Feelings, Mind

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• As every parent knows, children go through an adolescent growth spurt, during which they put on inches at an alarming rate. Humans are unique in this respect: most mammalian species, including apes, progress almost directly from infancy to adulthood.

  Richard Leakey

  Children, Unique, Parent

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• A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

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• Heaven lies around us in our infancy.

  William Golding

  Lying, Heaven

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• When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much ridicule that you would never forget it? With his morbid dream of primitive and rustic life, with his nostalgia for Homeric cheeses and legendary wool-spinners, with his hatred for the machine, steam power, and electricity, that maniac of antique simplicity is like a man who, after having reached full physical maturity, still wants to sleep in his cradle and feed himself at the breast of his decrepit old nurse in order to recover his thoughtless infancy.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  "Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America" by Anthony L. Geist, Jose B. Monle-N, Taylor & Francis, (p. 57), 1999.

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• Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

  Blaise Pascal

  Ancient, Mankind, All Things

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”, p.449, Cosimo, Inc.

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• He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.

  William Wordsworth

  Used, Faculty, Contempt

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• How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew.

  Samuel Woodworth

  Nature, Heart, Views

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• But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!.

  William Wordsworth

  Lying, Home, Clouds

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

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• Tenderness is the infancy of love.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Tenderness

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• The search for the lessons of the new science is still in progress, really in its infancy. In this realm, three is a new kind of freedom, where it is more rewarding to explore than to reach conclusions, more satisfying to wonder than to know, and more exciting to search than to stay put. Curiosity, not certainty, becomes the saving grace.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Learning, Grace, Curiosity

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• Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.

  Denis Diderot

  Art, Passion, Creativity

  "Diderot". Book by Otis Fellows, 1977.

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• An engaging, blow-by-blow account of the infancy of the Obama presidency. . . . Manna for political junkies. . . . Thoroughly researched . . . humanizes a figure considered periodically out-of-touch even by some of his admirers.

  Carlo Wolff

  Blow, Political, Admirer

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• Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.

  Judith Viorst

  Growing Up, Neurosis, Golden

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• The essential thought must ever be that a man does not, except in his spiritual infancy, accept a statement merely because the Church or someone in authority declares it correct, but because, under mature examination, it is found to be true and right and worthwhile.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Spiritual, Men, Church

  John Andreas Widtsoe (1938). “Program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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