This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Robert Oppenheimer, fully Julius Robert Oppenheimer
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics... they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
Children | Perception | Problems | Wisdom |
It is not enough for parents to understand children. they must accord children the privilege of understanding them.
Children | Enough | Parents | Understanding | Wisdom | Privilege | Understand |
The real object of education is to give children resources that will endure as long as life endures; habits that time will ameliorate, not destroy; occupation that will render sickness tolerable, solitude pleasant, age venerable, life more dignified and useful, and death less terrible.
Age | Children | Death | Destroy | Education | Life | Life | Object | Occupation | Solitude | Time | Will | Wisdom |
Benjamin Spock, fully Benjamin McLane Spock
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children and the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
Symeon the New Theologian, fully Saint Symeon the New Theologian NULL
When a man walks into the sea up to his knees or waist, he can see the water all around him. But when he dives into the water, he can no longer see anything outside, and he knows only that his whole body is in the water. This is what happens to those who plunge into the vision of God.
Terence, full Latin name Publius Terentius Afer NULL
It is better to bind your children to you by respect and gentleness than by fear.
Better | Children | Fear | Gentleness | Respect | Wisdom | Respect |
The most sublime labor of poetry is to give sense and passion to insensate things; and it is characteristic of children to take inanimate things in their hands and talk to them in play as if they were living persons... in the world's childhood, men were by nature sublime poets.
Childhood | Children | Labor | Men | Nature | Passion | Play | Poetry | Sense | Wisdom | World |