Infancy Is quotes

Infancy Is

26 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Alice Miller
Alice Miller Psychologist, Author

"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."

Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist

"One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea what was going on."

George Santayana
George Santayana Philosopher, Poet

"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."

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Billie Jean King Tennis Player
Infancy Is

"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."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise."

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