One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.
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As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them.
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.
As parents, we're human beings, too, but sometimes we're not as understanding as we'd like to be.
Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.
We cannot understand our humanity just by studying individuals.
As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From the time we can walk and talk, we want to know what things are and how they work - we begin life as little scientists.
I love human beings. I believe that there is so much to learn from every person you meet, including a child.
We look for meaning and purpose; children bring that.
The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
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