Truth Quote by Rick Riordan

Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say “tell the truth,” and when you do, they don’t believe you. What’s the…

— Rick Riordan

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

— Peter Maughan

“You young people are always so obsessed with truth. The truth is often overrated.”

— Maggie O'Farrell

“Everybody lies to children, even their parents. The day a child realizes that is the day they start becoming an adult.”

— Scott Meyer

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

— Patricia Dsouza

“We grow up and figure out the truth, we realize how hard it is to maintain and take care of life, even the ones…

— Justin Chin

“Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Adults are taught not to believe anything unless it is boring or ugly.”

— Katherine Rundell

Adults end up shading things and shading the truth, and you end up lying and telling people what they want to hear.

— Chelsea Handler

“When you slice the truth too thin, you deceive.”

— Eileen Wilks

“There are different kinds of truth. And if our kind is more mature than theirs, it's so only because we know that.”

— Sylvia Engdahl

“Oh, I used to lie all the time as a kid." I didn't think of it as lying, though. I thought of it as…

— Jenny Han