Infantile Quotes

#1. The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.

Robert Briffault

#2. Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.

Norman Vincent Peale

#3. An ethical fraternity, with its mythical Nothing, not infused by any archaic-infantile driving force, is a pure vacuum and can never evoke in man the slightest trace of that age-old animal power which drives the migrating bird across the sea. . . .

C. G. Jung

#4. Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free.

Sigmund Freud

#5. The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues and analyzes in a way which he would readily recognize as infantile within the sphere of his real interests. He becomes primitive again.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#6. The quest for absolute certainty is an immature, if not infantile, trait of thinking.

Herbert Feigl

#7. The militant girl, in adopting new patterns of conduct, could not be judged by traditional standards. Old values, sterile and infantile phobias disappeared.

Frantz Fanon

#8. Oh, now look. She prays to the Mother of Jesus as if she believes she can intercede for her. Ma infantile, you surely do not understand the depth of those repetitious lines, do you

Sai Marie Johnson

#9. the more infantile the students, the more seriously they take themselves. They are generally a humorless lot." In

Dean Koontz

#10. A world that is intellectually mature but morally infantile is on the road to ruin.

Joshua Loth Liebman

#11. I am a father. My son's name is Max and my daughter's name is Billie Grace. Twelve years ago Max was born with Down Syndrome. His journey has been complicated by infantile seizures, sleep apnea, dietary challenges and now, puberty!

John C. McGinley

#12. It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Voltaire

#13. FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.

Edsger Dijkstra

#14. Most people turn things like elections into a fetish and think it's the only way to go: if we just keep giving people the vote, that'll solve all our problems. In the end, that's just a silly, infantile notion.

Pankaj Mishra

#15. For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them.

Frantz Fanon

#16. Love at first sight is a revival of an infantile impression. The first love object reappears in a different disguise.

Wilhelm Stekel

#17. 'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.

David Chase

#18. His enthusiasm was adorable. I couldn't resist leaning over to kiss him on the cheek. "Just so you know, I'm right here," Mom said. "Sitting next to you. Your mother. Who held your hand as you took your first infantile steps.

John Green

#19. If one accepts Jean Piaget's famous definition of mature intelligence as the ability to coordinate between multiple perspectives (or possible perspectives) one can see, here, precisely how bureaucratic power, at the moment it turns to violence, becomes literally a form of infantile stupidity.

David Graeber

#20. The sheer size too, the excessive abundance, scale, and exaggeration of dreams could be an infantile characteristic. The most ardent wish of children is to grow up and get as big a share of everything as the grown-ups; they are hard to satisfy; do not know the meaning of 'enough.

Sigmund Freud

#21. Not fair," Quentin said. "She's the one insulting us, and she gets to walk away?" "Dramatic exits are the last refuge of the infantile personality," I said. "Now drink your soda and help me think of nasty names to call her next time she shows up.

Seanan McGuire

#22. There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in Childhood's End. But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are.

Arthur C. Clarke

#23. And if you have any doubts," Peter added, "Corinithians overtly tells us that the parables have two layers of meaning: 'milk for babes and meat for men - where the milk is watered-down reading for infantile minds, and the meat is the true message, accessible only to mature minds.

Dan Brown

#24. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Albert Einstein

#25. Playfulness: that infantile quality we sneer at whilst busying ourselves with intellect and seriousness. And misery.

Martin Cosgrove

#26. My mother had a habit of hanging onto - even treasuring - the foibles of my distant infantile state.

Alice Munro

#27. To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

Frederick Salomon Perls

#28. It was such an infantile prayer, the sort of prayer a five-year-old might pray. But maybe those were the best kind.

Michel Faber

#29. On the one hand maybe I've remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.

Audrey Hepburn

#30. All that blind, infantile hunger to save and be saved, to repeat the past and make it different, had somehow attached itself, ravenously, to her.

Donna Tartt

#31. In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though they were sensual pleasures. This is what Europe offered, or was said to offer.

Saul Bellow

#32. We want to be all things, not just to gain power over things - how infantile!

Frederick Lenz

#33. We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.

Karen Armstrong

#34. When abused children under court protection were studied in California and Massachusetts, it turned out that a disproportionate number of them were unattractive ... abused kids had head and face proportions that made them look less infantile and cute.

Nancy Etcoff

#35. The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive.

Terry Eagleton

#36. Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West.

Michael Leunig

#37. Music is a permanent art, it will always go through phases where you like it and are in tune with it, but saying that music "got bad" is infantile. The same is true with your life.

John Darnielle

#38. The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.

Archibald MacLeish

#39. I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#40. I know now for a fact that improv can't hold a candle to doing standup. It's not the same buzz, it just isn't. It feels infantile to me at times. When you see guys who do it really well, great. But improv needs a rewrite.

Ron James

#41. Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.

John Desmond Bernal

#42. United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.

John Ralston Saul

#43. I've never gone anywhere where the men have come up to my infantile expectations. I always have gone through life constantly being surprised by the extreme, marvelous qualities of a small minority of men. But I can't see the rest of them. They seem awful rubbish.

Rebecca West

#44. The American nation today is infantile so much as adolescent - that is ambivalent in its twin desire for both authoritarian structure and the end of parental hegemony

David Foster Wallace

#45. True philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to one's own hopes or conceptual limitations.

David Bentley Hart

#46. The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other. He's interested in maps and plans and languages and codes.

Philip Pullman

#47. Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.

Jim Harrison

#48. There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point ... The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.

R. Dawkins

#49. Many a trace, and many a germ of this infantile disease, to which without a doubt, I also am a victim, has been chased away by your brochure, or will yet be eradicated by it.

Herman Gorter

#50. Almost every cartoonist, when he's sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl to the expression that he's drawing. But when I would write a story - I know it's going to sound almost ridiculous and infantile - I would, in a way, start living it.

Al Jaffee

#51. But would the perpetual flux and reflux of individualism reduce all personality to the level of mass consciousness? Would American culture remain neither bourgeois nor proletarian, but infantile? Would the moron, instead of the meek, inherit democracy?

Ellen Glasgow

#52. The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect.

Karen Horney

#53. I'm self-centered, inconsiderate, and what was the third adjective? Oh, yes, and I have this infantile fantasy that one day I'll amount to something as an actress.

Jay Presson Allen

#54. Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

John Lithgow

#55. What's most troubling about this witless mishmash of whiny, infantile philosophizing and bone-crunching violence is the increasing realization that it actually thinks it's saying something of significance.

Kenneth Turan

#56. Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.

Albert Einstein

#57. Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got marvellous encouragement andinterest from her ... she's certainly the English composer who's influenced me themost.

Richard Rodney Bennett

#58. I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.

James A. Baldwin

#59. I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

Aleister Crowley

#60. Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.

J.G. Ballard

#61. Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.

Sergio Aragones

#62. Hiphop has remained in an infantile stage and has not been allowed to grow.

Slick Rick

#63. When I was 13 and 14, there were a lot of jokes about my bar mitzvah and my grandparents, and then when I got older, it became more about touching boobs and trying to get liquor. I kind of ran the gamut of infantile behavior and I haven't moved one step forward since.

Seth Rogen

#64. You cannot over estimate how infantile men are about sex! Men are people that have sex BECAUSE they have a headache ... or are on fire, or have been shot in the head, or whatever it is!

Dylan Moran

#65. The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.

Hayao Miyazaki

#66. A god who gave us everything we wanted would be the most malevolent god of all. With an infantile curiosity, we insist on tasting the cockroach on the floor while our father is preparing a magnificent feast for us.

Criss Jami

#67. One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.

Chuck D

#68. I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm of his infantile vanity.

Rex Stout

#69. I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic
I mean my motion.

Ezra Pound

#70. The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.

Albert J. Nock

#71. Prejudice comes from insecurity and its spiritually infantile need of belonging.

Bryant McGill

#72. I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

Ivor Novello

#73. I wanted revenge; I wanted to dance on the graves of a few people who made me unhappy. It's a pretty infantile way to go through life - I'll show them - but I've done it, and I've got more than I ever dreamed of.

Anthony Hopkins

#74. Teachings about the "infantile-perverse-criminal" unconscious have led people to make a dangerous monster out of the unconscious, that really very natural thing. As if all that is good, reasonable, beautiful and worth living for had taken up its abode in consciousness!

C. G. Jung

#75. I'm supportive of practical nationalism, like the kind we need in Canada to avoid being absorbed into a much larger country. The kind of nationalism I despise as destructive and infantile is really just tribalism writ large.

Steven Heighton

#76. I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

Robert Wyatt

#77. There was something so infantile in the man's fright that Jahan could not help but chuckle. Children, only they, stared up with sparkling eyes, pointing at the white beast.

Elif Shafak

#78. The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one ...

Hildegard Knef

#79. Dramatic exits are the last refuge of the infantile personality

Seanan McGuire

#80. Marriage is for the mature, not the infantile. The fusion of two different personalities requires emotional balance and control on the part of each person.

Archie Lee

#81. The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy.

Erik Erikson

#82. Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.

Bill Maher

#83. Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.

Terence McKenna