Clive Staples Lewis quote: “When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

“When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. … I must be scientific.”

Philip K. Dick book The Man in the High Castle

Source: The Man in the High Castle (1962)
Context: When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things.... I must be scientific.

“Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age
The child is grown, and puts away childish things.
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
Nobody that matters, that is.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

"Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies," lines 1-4, from Wine from These Grapes (1934)

“Just because you know I had no other choice doesn't make the anger go away. I understand that. But you're a man now. You can put away these childish things.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“LIFE LESSONS FROM ENGR. ABAH SULE BIOGRAPHY -My Life And Passion For Reading " When I was a child, I taught as a child, I spoke as a child and I understood as a child thinking that freedom is free. But when I became a man I put away childish things, i realized that it was not true, freedom is not free it is what we fight for everyday for our children and for the next generation. -Engr. Abah Sule”

Engr.Abah Sule

“LIFE LESSONS FROM ENGR. ABAH SULE BIOGRAPHY -My Life And Passion For Reading " When I was a child, I taught as a child, I spoke as a child and I understood as a child thinking that freedom is free. But when I became a man I put away childish things, i realized that it was not true, freedom is not free it is what we fight for everyday for our children and for the next generation. -Engr. Abah Sule”

Engr.Abah Sule

“LIFE LESSONS FROM ENGR. ABAH SULE BIOGRAPHY -My Life And Passion For Reading " When I was a child, I taught as a child, I spoke as a child and I understood as a child thinking that freedom is free. But when I became a man I put away childish things, i realized that it was not true, freedom is not free it is what we fight for everyday for our children and for the next generation. -Engr. Abah Sule”

Engr.Abah Sule

“Titles are but nick-names, and every nickname is a title. The thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort of foppery in the human character, which degrades it. It reduces man into the diminutive of man in things which are great, and the counterfeit of women in things which are little. It talks about its fine blue ribbon like a girl, and shows its new garter like a child. A certain writer, of some antiquity, says: "When I was a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things."”

Thomas Paine book Rights of Man

Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

“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.”

Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist

"On Three Ways of Writing for Children" (1952) — in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1967), p. 25
Context: 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.

“It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.”

Isaac Asimov book Foundation

Source: Foundation

“The supposition that the world is ever in league to put a man down is childish. Hardly less childish is it for an author to lay the blame on reviewers. A good sturdy author is a match for a hundred reviewers.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

Ephemeral and Permanent Success
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XI - Cash and Credit

“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

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