#childish

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

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Feeling bored is a childish attitude. You wouldn't feel so if you don't rely on somebody to change your feeling. ↗

— Toba Beta

#childish #dependent #feeling #attitude

A childish mind griped to unexpected changes. ↗

— Toba Beta

#gripe #unexpected-changes #change

You can’t confuse childlike faith with childish thinking. ↗

— John MacArthur

#faith #faith

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? ↗

— Judith Viorst

#cost #does #foolish #how #irrational

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#childish #else #nice #pretending #profession

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#dare #deep #deep meaning #dream #err

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#childish #remembrance #seems #thing #you

The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness). ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#childlessness #fable #fantasy-literature #literary-criticism #literature

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

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