Adults Quote by Anonymous

It's funny how when you're little, you miss all the little lies. They float right past you, but you don't wonder about them much.…

— Virginia C. Andrews

Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an…

— Muriel Barbery

When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are true--such things,…

— Anonymous

Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Grown-up people find it very difficult to believe really wonderful things, unless they have what they call proof. But children will believe almost anything,…

— E. Nesbit

The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about kids, which…

— Stephen King

When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are…

— Marguerite Young

“Young children often lie about their world, knowing instinctively that its truth is something adults no longer understand.”

— Peter Maughan

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“And yet there’s nothing to understand. The problem is that children believe what adults say and, once they’re adults themselves, they exact their revenge…

— Muriel Barbery

Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you…

— Louis C. K

I had to believe in myself from quite a young age. And I had to grow up pretty early.

— Eoin Morgan