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Infancy Quotes - Page 2

Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.51, Wordsworth Editions

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

James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

"Letters on the Study and Use of History". Book by Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Letter 4, 1752.

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.

Adam Clarke, Mrs. Richard Smith (1833). “An Account of the Infancy, Religious, and Literary Life of Adam Clarke ...: Written by One who was Intimately Acquainted with Him from His Boyhood to the Sixtieth Year of His Age”, p.18

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.28

From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.167

The samskaras that were developed in previous incarnations are usually hidden by the temporary amnesia of infancy and by the transient personality.

Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects.

Alistair Cockburn (2006). “Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game”, p.54, Pearson Education

We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.

Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which aren't.

Jon Franklin (1987). “Writing for story: craft secrets of dramatic nonfiction by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner”, Signet

A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.

Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.466, Modern Library

Admiration spoils all from infancy.

Blaise Pascal (2013). “PensĂ©es”, p.46, Courier Corporation

Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”, p.449, Cosimo, Inc.