Quotes on Children's Play - For the Love of Play

Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning.

Fred Rogers -American television personality

In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.

Ovid -Roman poet
43 BC–17 or 18 AD

The true object of all human life is play.

G. K. Chesterton - British author
1874–1936

Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.

Diane Ackerman - Contemporary American author

Culture arises and unfolds in and as play.

Johan Huizinga -Dutch historian
1872–1945

Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.

Abraham Maslow -American psychologist
1908–1970

Whoever wants to understand much must play much.

Gottfried Benn -German physician
1886–1956

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.

Kay Redfield Jamison - Contemporary American professor of psychiatry

 Deep meaning lies often in childish play.

Johann Friedrich von Schiller -German poet
1759–1805

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Heraclitus -Greek philosopher
535–475 BC

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Plato - Greek philosopher
427–347 BC

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.

Carl Jung - Swiss psychoanalyst
1875–1961

Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.

Henri Matisse - French painter
1869–1954

If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.

Jean Piaget - Swiss philosopher
1896–1980

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him.

Pablo Neruda - Chilean poet
1904–1973

We all need empty hours in our lives or we will have no time to create or dream.

Robert Coles - Contemporary American child psychologist

The child amidst his baubles is learning the action of light, motion, gravity, muscular force…

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American writer
1803–1882

Pausing to listen to an airplane in the sky, stooping to watch a ladybug on a plant, sitting on a rock to watch the waves crash over the quayside—children have their own agendas and timescales. As they find out more about their world and their place in it; they work hard not to let adults hurry them. We need to hear their voices.

Cathy Nutbrown - Contemporary British educational theorist

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