Children Quote by Jean Piaget

Lying is a crime the least liable to variation in its definitions. A child will upon the slightest temptation tell an untruth as readily…

— Joseph Priestley

“What is a lie? It's a distortion of reality, presented as reality. We say it's a bad thing. We teach kids not to lie.…

— James Patterson

A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.

— Judith McNaught

“Children are naive, they don’t possess enough skills to be able to recognize the balance between the truth and a lie.”

— Patricia Dsouza

Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or bald-faced; they can be lies of omission or lies of commission; they can…

— Robin Marantz Henig

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

— Helen Rowland

Lying is a false significance of speech, with a will to deceive, which cannot be cured but by shame and reason; it is a…

— Jon Jones

Telling a lie is: An Art for a lover Fault for a little boy an Accomplishment for a bachelor And a Matter of survival…

— Anonymous

Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright.

— Elias Lyman Magoon

“Parents often fail to address early childhood lying, since the lying is almost innocent—their child’s too young to know what lies are, or that…

— Po Bronson

A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves

— James Lee Burke

“Thus, all sane moralists admit that one may sometimes tell a lie; but no sane moralist would approve of telling a little boy to…

— G.K. Chesterton