Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other."
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Infancy
26 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
William Wordsworth
Poet
"He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so."
James Mark Baldwin
Psychologist
"The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Author
"From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition."
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"Admiration spoils all from infancy."
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"Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind."
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"I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth."
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"A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age."
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"The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which aren't."
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"Children are the future, because mankind is moving more and more towards infancy."
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