Top 100 Wise Children Quotes
#1. Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.
James M. Barrie
#2. A wise man once said all children are born knowing what the angels look like
Daniel Gottlieb
#3. It's a wise parent who allows her children to give up the things of childhood in their own time.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#5. Kids are trusting and wise and I cannot think of a less useful combination to be born with. The wisdom lets children know who they are. And then the trust lets everyone else take that knowledge away.
Sean Wilsey
#7. These were wise, modern children, and they knew: a mother could be a witch, a child could be a criminal. A librarian could be a thief.
Rebecca Makkai
#8. Houses" - so the Wise Men tell me
"Mansions"! Mansions must be warm!
Mansions cannot let the tears in,
Mansions must exclude the storm!
"Many Mansions," by "his Father,"
I don't know him; snugly built!
Could the Children find the way there
Some, would even trudge tonight!
Emily Dickinson
#9. It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.
Michael Crapo
#10. A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children; her seed of love produces a harvest of trust.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#11. Death is so close, always, a breath away, so perhaps it was wise to introduce children to that concept at an early age. Maya
Harlan Coben
#12. Three great lessons for my children; love God, love yourself and love your neighbour as yourself.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#13. The faults of women, of children, of the feeble, the indigent, and the ignorant, are the fault of the husbands, the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise.
Victor Hugo
#15. My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child
Louisa May Alcott
#16. You are wise in the ways of real love, Mackenzie. So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it. Love is just the skin of knowing. Mackenzie, you love your children, whom you know so well, with a wonderful and real love.
Wm. Paul Young
#17. I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.
Thomas Jefferson
#18. People of color have to do this work as a mater of everyday survival. And so long as they have to, who am I to act as if I have a choice in the matter? Especially when my future and that of my children in large part depends on the eradication of racism? There is no choice.
Tim Wise
#20. Beating children will not make them wise. They will grow wilder and wilder and the cane will feel like paper on their skins.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#21. Street children are lovely blossoms just dropped from the tree after a heavy storm. Now they need to be put together with a needle and threads of security and shelter to live into a beautiful circle of life's garland
Munia Khan
#22. I don't believe in the wisdom of children, nor in the wisdom of the old. There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of the living. We are never so wise as when we live in the moment.
Paul Kalanithi
#23. Use condoms; it's wise not to gamble with your children's future.
Bauvard
#24. Children are free moral agents and have a right to be exposed to a range of beliefs well beyond the rigid doctrinal confines of their parent's faith, and we have an obligation to insist that they be so exposed, at least in public schools, if not elsewhere.
Tim Wise
#25. Common sense was sufficient to determine that it could not mean that all men were equal in fact, but in right, not all equally tall, strong, wise, handsome, active, but equally men . . . the work of the same Artist, children in the same cases entitled to the same justice. Nabby
David McCullough
#26. God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be like your children."
Vance Havner
#30. Parents don't become inaccessible to your Children, when they don't get the right information from you, they may get the wrong one from an outsider; you are their Caretaker..be wise!
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#31. You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.
Robert Charles Wilson
#32. I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
Beverly Cleary
#33. When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.
Brian K. Vaughan
#35. The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.
Czeslaw Milosz
#36. Children are the keys of Paradise.They alone are good and wise, Because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.
Richard Henry Stoddard
#37. Wise parents do not criticize each other in front of their children or their friends. Nor do they talk negatively about their children when others are present. That is disloyalty.
Alan Loy McGinnis
#38. A moody child and wildly wise
Pursued the game with joyful eyes,
Which chose, like meteors, their way,
And rived the dark with private ray.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#40. I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.
Margaret Wise Brown
#41. What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.
Robert Southey
#42. We are born with our father's names. We are not responsible for their failures. We are responsible for what they made us believe in. That is our only obligation. And it is even then a choice which we may sometimes be wise to ignore.
Warren Eyster
#43. In the great green room, there was a telephone
And a red balloon
And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon ...
Margaret Wise Brown
#44. the people grew tired of this little gossip. Fathers looked at their children and thought: "They are not learning much. What will make them brave and wise? What will teach them to love their country and old Norway? Will not the stories of battles, of brave deeds, of mighty men, do this?
Jennie Hall
#45. It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had
yea, and that among very wise men
to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.
Roger Ascham
#46. With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#47. The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.
E.M. Delafield
#48. A child's death is really of less value than an adult's. I mean, what could you really accomplish in a year? Not much, and that's not even talking about, you know, pay-wise.
Zach Braff
#49. Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart.
Edna O'Brien
#52. Someone wise, I forget who, said we must leave our children to fate.
Bernard Cornwell
#53. My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.
Brandon Lee
#54. He that has trained his children for heaven,
rather than for earth- for God rather than for man- he is the parent who will be called wise at the last.
J.C. Ryle
#55. Boys need healthy self-esteem. They need love. And a wise and loving feminist politics can provide the only foundation to save the lives of male children. Patriarchy will not heal them. If that were so they would all be well.
Bell Hooks
#56. Children are very wise
intuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.
V.C. Andrews
#58. Albert Einstein was asked once how we could make our children intelligent. His reply was both simple and wise. "If you want your children to be intelligent," he said, "read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." He
Neil Gaiman
#59. As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us to be not only "as harmless as doves," but also "as wise as serpents." He wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head.
C.S. Lewis
#60. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest.
O. Henry
#61. There was a man so wise,
He jumped into
A sandy place
And burnt out both his eyes!
And when he knew his eyes were gone,
He offered no complaint.
He summoned up a vision
And made himself a saint.
-Children's Verse
from History of Muad'dib
Frank Herbert
#62. Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#63. Children are gentle and heed. Adults are tough and seize. Wise men and women have the strength and flexibility to do what's right.
Stefan Emunds
#64. Prestige! Sir, is it nothing? To be revered by fools, gaped at by children, envied by the rich and scorned by the wise.
Stendhal
#66. When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God told His children;'You are sheep among wolves, be wise as the serpent, yet innocent as doves.
Dennis Lehane
#67. It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.
Mark Twain
#68. One rabbi compared wise men studying the law to children tossing a ball to one another: a first sage said the meaning was this, another said the meaning was that, one gave his opinion, another begged to differ.
Israel Shenker
#69. Do not scream, when a child breaks a glass, only touch the shoulder, and say gracious words; do not worry!
Lailah Gifty Akita
#70. Children sometimes know best and we chide them for being precocious. Then we grow aged and become again like children, and they call us wise.
Miguel Syjuco
#71. Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man who has a well-furnished European apartment, with an excellent toilet, and a well-furnished dogma.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#73. What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
Abigail Adams
#74. Children close their ears to Advice but Open their eyes to example.
Even New Genx Moms close their ears to Advice but Open their eyes to realize their mistakes eventually.
Think, Act Wise before it's Late.
Ilaxi Patel
#75. I truly believe that the children who are diagnosed with cancer are some of the wisest, sweetest, strongest, and most loving children. They have gained a bigger perspective of the world in such a short time. They become wise beyond their years.
Laura Lane
#76. The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy in him.
Anonymous
#77. And the Eldest Magician said, 'How wise are little children who see and are silent!
Rudyard Kipling
#78. All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the hearts of children.
George MacDonald
#79. A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#80. Every child has a right to its own bent ... It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.
George Bernard Shaw
#81. A child's own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child.
Margaret Wise Brown
#82. I like dogs
Big dogs
Little dogs
Fat dogs
Doggy dogs
Old dogs
Puppy dogs
I like dogs
A dog that is barking over the hill
A dog that is dreaming very still
A dog that is running wherever he will
I like dogs.
Margaret Wise Brown
#83. I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
Natalie Babbitt
#85. Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd,
Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave;
For though we like it, as a forward child,
'Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave.
William Davenant
#87. I am not, I will not be.
I have not, I will not have.
This frightens all children,
And kills fear in the wise.
Nagarjuna
#88. Real women have children, wise women choose for themselves.
Karin Rahbek
#89. A wise old owl once told me,
One time when he was out of his tree,
That nothing in this world is for free.
I agree!
P.D. Cain
#90. Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.
Theodore Roosevelt
#91. Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise
as priests, prophets or philosophers are wise. Specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
Allan Bloom
#92. Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.
Frederick Lenz
#93. He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.
Chanakya
#94. A child falls many times in attempt to walk. But never quit trying and eventually, the child is able to walk.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#95. Eugene looked with passionate devotion at that grand old head, calm, wise and comforting. In a moment of vision, he saw that, for him, here was the last of those giants to whom we give the faith of our youth, believing like children that the riddle of our lives may be solved by their quiet judgment.
Thomas Wolfe
#97. Sir Wystan," Ryla stated. "You have come. Is the danger quite near?"
"Not yet, little one, but it is always wise to be several steps ahead of it," the old knight said gently.
Kate Willis
#98. All parents hope and pray that their children will make wise decisions. Children who are obedient and responsible bring to their parents unending pride and satisfaction.
James E. Faust
#99. Now let us see what the philosophers say. Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools _always_ speak the truth. The deduction is plain
adults and wise persons _never_ speak it.
Mark Twain
#100. The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.
Algernon Blackwood
