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If children grew up according to early indication

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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Think what a better world it would be if we all,

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Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

Adults are obsolete children.

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Adults are obsolete children.

A grownup is a child with layers on.

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A grownup is a child with layers on.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adult

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When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

When you're green you're growing, and when you're

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When you're green you're growing, and when you're ripe you start to rot.

There are children playing in the streets who cou

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There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

The reluctance to put away childish things may be

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The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.

One of the virtues of being very young

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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

What a distressing contrast there is between the

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

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy

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Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Creativity represents a miraculous coming togethe

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Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to

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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand ra

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

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I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselve

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

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