Quote by Sigmund Freud
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intellige

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. – Sigmund Freud

Other quotes by Sigmund Freud

I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think. – Sigmund Freud

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Experience
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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. – Sigmund Freud

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Experience
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Other Quotes from
Inner Child
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Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. – G.K. Chesterton

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Inner Child

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. – Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943

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Inner Child

A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it. – R.C. Ferguson

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Inner Child

Anticipate the day as if it was your birthday and you are turning six again. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

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Inner Child

Random Quotes

The long way around is the shortcut when everybody knows the shortcut. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Perspective

The question of whether its Gods green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying. – Edward Hoagland

Category:
Conservation

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Category:
Imagination

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another. – Sigmund Freud

Category:
Men