Children Quote by Tim Sandlin

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

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner…

— Samuel Johnson

“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

Very young children have no way to verify the accuracy and validity of what parents and adults tell them. So be truthful to them…

— Rey Mellomida

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

A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is…

— Philip K. Dick

“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

I would like to say that to mislead the youth is not only deceit but a crime.

— Rajnath Singh

It's crucial with today's challenges that our children feel they have a source of information they can trust in their parents.

— Gloria Estefan

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

Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right…

— Sydney J. Harris