Mistrust Quotes

Mistrust Quote of the day

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

We must dissent from the fear.

We slaughter one another in our words and attitudes. We slaughter one another in the stereotypes and mistrust that linger in our heads, and the words of hate we spew from our lips.

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.

I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.

I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete... with Dada I also have in common a certain mistrust towards power. We don't like authority, we don't like power.

I came to mistrust my desire to explode the picture and supercharge it in some way… what is more important is a feeling of strength in reserve – tension beneath calm.

Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.

We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.

Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.

We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.

Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player

We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.

Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.

The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely right.

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.

The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.

Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned

Developing concern for others, thinking of them as part of us, brings self-confidence , reduces our sense of suspicion and mistrust, and enables us to develop a calm mind.

One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.

The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust.

I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

In a world filled with mistrust, armed to the teeth and ready to explode, a realistic attitude might be to consider love as an imperative need.

Suspicion follows close on mistrust.

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.

America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine.

To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.

A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the end will destroy thee.

I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is imperfect and circumscribed.

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.

It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill, based in large measure on a healthy mistrust of the state.