Child Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and…

— Elias Canetti

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose…

— Bertrand Russell

Contrary to what we've been told, children can detect deceit in parents much easier than parents can detect deceit in children.

— Tim Sandlin

Adults lie to themselves all the time about what is acceptable, but kids know what is right and wrong.

— Sarah Pinborough

“Adults, in their dealing with children, are insane," he [Ed Ricketts] said. "And children know it too. Adults lay down rules they would not…

— John Steinbeck

Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be…

— C. S. Lewis

Children aren't fooled. They know we give time to the things we love.

— John Bradshaw

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

— Anonymous

“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

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

— Patricia Dsouza

As children's inquiries are not to be slighted, so also great care is to be taken, that they never receive deceitful and illuding answers.…

— John Locke