It is the stupidest children who are the most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are the most grown-up.
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The Silver Chair (1953), Ch. 16 : The Healing of HarmsC. S. Lewis
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
C. S. Lewis
Why is it that the stupidest people are always the most good-natured?
Stefan Zweig
I am so tired of rearranging my life around what the stupidest people might do.
Bill Maher
I never did anything according to what anyone else wanted. That's why I think I am happy. I do everything 100% — even my stupidest missteps. I know when I'm getting ready to mess up, I'm going to do it full-on.
Sandra Bullock
I am a passionate admire of Sappho, but that has to be one of the stupidest sentences I have ever seen in a scholarly book.
Camille Paglia
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