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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• 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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• 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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• Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.

  George Mason

  Infancy Is, Rights, Mind

  Extracts from the Virginia Charters written by George Mason, July 1773.

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• Nations, like men, have their infancy.

  Henry Bolingbroke

  Men, Nations

  "Letters on the Study and Use of History". Book by Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Letter 4, 1752.

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• The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.

  Leon Kass

  Infancy Is, Important, Genetics

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• From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

  John Updike

  Infancy Is, Secret, Spy

  "Bech: A Book". Book by John Updike, 1965.

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• Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.

  Billie Jean King

  Girl, Sports, Infancy Is

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• Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Children, Two

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.34, University of Georgia Press

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• Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.

  Alice Miller

  Infancy Is, Adults, Able

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• In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Shapes, States, Institutions

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• The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

  Art Linkletter

  Life, Men, Infancy Is

  A Child's Garden of Misinformation (1965) ch. 8

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• At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done

  Simone Weil

  Heart, Evil, Teeth

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.59, Routledge

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• In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin

  Agnes Repplier

  Life, Stress, Fall

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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• Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Lying, Childhood

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• Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Sports, Nurse

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.

  Olive Schreiner

  Humanity, Gone, Slavery

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• Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Baby, Children

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

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