Top 258 Childlike Quotes & Sayings

Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.

The great person never loses a childlike spirit.

You can be childlike without being childish.

We need to remain childlike. Children don't dream of being insignificant.

I have a lot of things [in me] that are childlike and innocent and sweet.

I still feel childlike. Not childish - there's a difference. But to be childlike is to be savoured and treasured. I offer my books to those who like the things of childhood; the challenges, intrigue, joy and fun.

Keep the childlike vision and remain true to your ideas.

Be like children , Not childish BUT childlike.

Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.

As a mature character artist I thoroughly enjoyed working with the enthusiastic, childlike Salman Khan.

There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

I don't like the idea of [having] a thick skin. I think we [should] be more childlike.

Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.

To me, 'Ace Ventura' is as scriptural and sacred as any movie I've ever done because it's childlike.

A lot of the stuff I tweet is out of childlike curiosity.

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.

The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.

Develop a childlike fascination with life and people.

I can make rhymes. My style of writing is kind of childlike anyway.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

I have a childlike spirit.

Along the way, let's never forget that once we were children and that we were all playing together without distinction of skin color, society level, or where people come from. Adults need to remember to play and to be more childlike in our behavior. We've forgotten what that childlike experience was like.

To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.

To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.

I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.

Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

I've always tried to retain that childlike wonder.

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.

Psychic beings are childlike, delicate and easily destroyed.

My childlike qualities sometimes lead me to jump into projects without thinking of the consequences.

There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then.

Some children's music is aimed just at kids, and it can be very childlike.

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.

[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .

The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.

I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.

I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.

I'm very curious and being childlike is vital in our industry

When I was on dialysis, I willed myself to do 'On the Town.' It accesses my most childlike, joyful love of theater.

He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he sounds like an elf on helium, we'll play with it.

You can’t confuse childlike faith with childish thinking.

Now that I am an actor (if you can call me that) I still watch movies with the same childlike enthusiasm.

Even the most stoic of men will be childlike at least once in a day.

I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.

Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.

Acting is a childlike thing. To act well, you have to be childlike in order to free yourself.

I am too childlike to be immature.

A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea

Whatever you choose, do it fully-with passion and childlike enthusiasm.

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.