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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

The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life. – Sigmund Freud

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Illusion
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Sigmund Freud
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Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it. – Sigmund Freud

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Men
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Sigmund Freud
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. – Sigmund Freud

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Freedom
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Inner Child
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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. – Albert Einstein

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Inner Child

It is a happy talent to know how to play. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Inner Child

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. – Heraclitus

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Inner Child

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. – Pablo Picasso, quoted in Time, October 1976

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Inner Child

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Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful. – Joyce Maynard

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Your body is built for walking. – Gary Yanker

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The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent. – Thomas Carlyle

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No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. – Ellen Glasgow

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