Becoming an adult Quote by Scott Meyer

“We’re lied to all our lives. We teach lies to the children, and they pass them on to theirs.”

— Jonathan Friesen

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

— Peter Maughan

“The child turns up still trusting these lies to be the truth.”

— Patricia Dsouza

“The world should stop lying to kids because they've always been brutally honest with us.”

— Adam Silvera

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“A lie never grows old.”

— Sophocles

“‎The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect; he becomes an adolescent, the day he forgives them he becomes an adult”

— Alden Nowlan

“With kids, what you see is what you get. There's just truth in their innocence that we as adults have lost and will never…

— Michelle Figley

“People say a lie is just a lie, but I say why deny the obvious child.”

— Paul Simon

“Children always spoke the truth, especially when it was inconvenient for everyone else.”

— K.J. Colt

“Everything has become too easy for our young people, and we make things worse by lying to them. We don't help them face reality.…

— Rafe Esquith

“At the time I didn't realize their lie was a defense against the fear they had of losing their mother. I was still too…

— Jack Gantos