Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.
Isaac AsimovTags: science school writing belief home thought ignorance shame bible library the-bible resentment leader bitter childish childish-beliefs guide guides ignore imagine invade leaders uneducated unimaginative unthinking
The phaenomena afforded by trades, are a part of the history of nature, and therefore may both challenge the naturalist's curiosity and add to his knowledge, Nor will it suffice to justify learned men in the neglect and contempt of this part of natural history, that the men, from whom it must be learned, are illiterate mechanicks... is indeed childish, and too unworthy of a philosopher, to be worthy of an honest answer.
Robert BoyleTags: science knowledge philosophers childish naturalist illiterate mechanics
In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.
Sigmund FreudTags: neurosis childish idea optimistic neurotic
The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon 'Hell and Damnation'—upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment. We are still trained to believe a good deal that is simply childish in theology. The outward and visible punishment of every wrong deed that men do, the repeated declaration that anything can be gotten by anyone at any time by prayer.
[Essay entitled 'On Christianity', published posthumously]
Tags: death hell punishment threat terror childish declaration damnation scare colored-church outdated
Feeling bored is a childish attitude.
You wouldn't feel so if you don't rely
on somebody to change your feeling.
Tags: feeling boredom childish dependent
Hard to forget first puppy love.
Toba BetaTags: childish puppy-love
A childish mind griped to unexpected changes.
Toba BetaTags: childish gripe unexpected-changes
When I saw snooty guy, I missed my childhood.
Toba BetaTags: snooty arrogance childish
In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.
Karl LagerfeldTags: life truth animals world humanity people meat fashion design clothing clothes create childish shoes chanel designer karl-lagerfeld cretivity eathing fur wear wearing
When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or right. Black or white. Now that I am an adult, I have put childish things aside and now I know that some things fall into wrong and some things fall into right. Some things are categorized as black and some things are categorized as white. But most things in the world aren't either! Most things in the world aren't black, aren't white, aren't wrong, aren't right, but most of everything is just different. And now I know that there's nothing wrong with different, and that we can let things be different, we don't have to try and make them black or white, we can just let them be grey. And when I was a child, I thought that God was the God who only saw black and white. Now that I am no longer a child, I can see, that God is the God who can see the black and the white and the grey, too, and He dances on the grey! Grey is okay.
C. JoyBell C.Tags: life inspirational learning god inspirational-quotes different living growth right-and-wrong life-lessons life-and-living growing inspirational-life childish differences living-life childishness black-and-white grey wrong-and-right greyness
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