Distrust Quotes

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens

There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them.

Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust.

Our distrust is very expensive.

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

Distrust unsolicited advice.

I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization.

The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology.

In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.'

The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.

Lay down your cynicism, and believe in the transformational power of love.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.

No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting.

He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.

Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.

Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.

Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.

At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.

There were a thousand secrets in her eyes, a thousand wounds. A lifetime of distrust and betrayal. Isolation. How did one overcome such things?

Do not be impatient for impatience is of the flesh. Do not try different methods because they are useful solely in helping the flesh. We must distrust the flesh entirely.

You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

I distrust anything that you don't hear.

I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!

Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.

A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.

In a baby's first months, the earliest patterns of intimacy or distrust are forever grooved into his soul.

Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.

It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.

And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I'm sorry it's the case, and I'll work hard to try to elevate it.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.

Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.