{"quotes":[{"text":"The poet believed that 'Beauty' first entered the world not at its creation, nor with the first garden, the first sunrise, the birth of the first man and woman and their first sexual act. The poet believed that 'Beauty' entered the world the day the first child blushed.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["adam-and-eve","beauty","blush","blushing","childhood","childlike","childlikeness","children","eden","innocence","payne","roman-payne","romance"],"id":21902,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"To seek truth requires one to ask the right questions. Those void of truth never ask about anything because their ego and arrogance prevent them from doing so. Therefore, they will always remain ignorant. Those on the right path to Truth are extremely heart-driven and childlike in their quest, always asking questions, always wanting to understand and know everything — and are not afraid to admit they don't know something. However, every truth seeker does need to breakdown their ego first to see Truth. If the mind is in the way, the heart won't see anything.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["arrogance","arrogant","ask-questions","asking-questions","asking-questions","brain","child","childlike","ego","egoism","egotism","fake","god","heart","ignorance","lies","media","mind","news","path","quest","question","questions-and-answers","reason","religion","road-to-truth","seeking","true","truth","truth-seeker","understand","understanding","untrue"],"id":65797,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Few endeavors, if any at all, I find to be inherently mature or inherently immature. Maturity is neither defined by one's particular preferences nor by one's particular activities; rather, it is defined by the strength of one's character.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["activity","adult","character","child","childish","childlike","development","endeavor","fun","immaturity","leisure","maturity","playing","psychology","responsibility","toys","traits","venture","video-games"],"id":137076,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Several themes describe misconceptions about mental illness and corresponding stigmatizing attitudes. Media analyses of film and print have identified three: people with mental illness are homicidal maniacs who need to be feared; they have childlike perceptions of the world that should be marveled; or they are responsible for their illness because they have weak character (29-32).'World Psychiatry. 2002 Feb; 1(1): 16–20.PMCID: PMC1489832Understanding the impact of stigma on people with mental illnessPATRICK W CORRIGAN and AMY C WATSON.","author":"Patrick W. Corrigan","tags":["bias","blame","childlike","dangerousness","discrimination","fear","media-bias","media-distortion","media-manipulation","mental-disorder","mental-health","mental-health-stigma","mental-illness","mental-patient","prejudice","psychiatric-community","sensationalism","stereotyped","stereotyped-prejudices","stereotypes","stigma","stigmatization"],"id":147752,"author_id":"Patrick+W.+Corrigan"},{"text":"If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adult","adults","age","age-is-nothing-but-a-number","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","child","childhood","childish","childlike","conform","conformity","craziness","crazy","critical","critical-thinking","develop","development","earn","funny","grow","growth","hard-work","herd","herd-mentality","humor","humour","illogical","immature","immaturity","independent-thinker","independent-thinkers","independent-thinking","individual","individuality","insane","insanity","joke","jokes","logic","mad","madness","majority","mature","maturity","minority","monkey-banana","mr-follow-follow","nonconformity","original","original-thinker","original-thinkers","original-thought","originality","philosopher","philosophers","philosophy","reach-adulthood","reason","sane","sanity","satire","sheep","sheeple","silver-plater","society","standard","think","think-for-yourself","thinker","thinkers","thinking-for-yourself","toil","unreasonable"],"id":155297,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"There is nothing more pure and beautiful than a person who always speaks truthfully with a childlike heart.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["beautiful","beauty","blunt","childlike","heart","honest","innocence","meaning","pure","pure-heart","purity","speak","truth","truthful","truthfully"],"id":386070,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.","author":"Richey Edwards","tags":["childlike","loneliness","rage"],"id":402029,"author_id":"Richey+Edwards"},{"text":"I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.","author":"George MacDonald","tags":["childlike","fairy-tales","george-macdonald","quote","quotes"],"id":402963,"author_id":"George+MacDonald"},{"text":"The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adult","adulthood","adults","advantage","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","child","childish","childlike","children","disrespect","disrespectful","funny","grow-up","grown-up","grown-ups","hate","hatred","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","immature","joke","jokes","kid","kids","mature","maturity","quotations","quotes","respect","respectful","satire","suit","teenager","teenagers","toddler","toddlers","treat","treat-like-a-child","treated"],"id":443494,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"So runs my dream, but what am I?An infant crying in the nightAn infant crying for the lightAnd with no language but a cry.","author":"Alfred Tennyson","tags":["childlike","dreams","knowledge","poetry"],"id":471351,"author_id":"Alfred+Tennyson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":10,"pages":1}}