Childlike Innocence Quotes

The essence of the show is that SpongeBob is an innocent in a world of jaded characters. The rest is absurd packaging.

Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

The innocence of children is their wisdom, the simplicity of children is their egolessness. The freshness of the child is the freshness of your consciousness, which never becomes old, which always remains young.

Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?

I think of myself as still being about five. Maybe that's why my Twitter picture is of me at five. That's how I feel. I'm honored if I can inspire somebody else. I'm just still trying to figure it all out about myself.

I'm trying to imitate Jesus in the fact that he said to be like children, to love children, to be as pure as children and to make yourself as innocent and to see the world through eyes of wonderment and the whole magical quality of it all.

I sang the hymns, and I read the Bible stories, but I was always perplexed, like, 'Really? Jesus wants you for a sunbeam? For a what?'

You're innocent when you dream.

In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.

'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line.

Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is!

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect.

So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination. Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.

I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.

If we have a simple existence, we shall feel how happy and how fortunate we are. There are some people who are of the opinion that simplicity is almost tantamount to stupidity. But simplicity and stupidity are like the North Pole and the South Pole. One can be as simple as a child and, at the same time, one can have boundless knowledge, light and wisdom.

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long adult books, the kind with no pictures or conversations.