Infancy Quotes

Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.

Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

I love storytelling so for me to get behind a story and get in there early in its infancy and kind of develop it in the early stages was something I really wanted to be a part of.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.

In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.

At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.

I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.