Quotes in the category children

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Albert Einstein

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Madeleine L'Engle

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Margaret Mead

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Oscar Wilde

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The soul is healed by being with children.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky