Best 103 quotes in «distrust quotes» category

What do I need to do to get you to trust me?   What do you want from me?”   He yells. I steel myself and look up into his panicked eyes and fight the pull I feel at coming in contact with those sapphires again.   “Nothing! I don’t want anything from you!”   I shout out the biggest lie I have ever told in my entire life.   Connor’s eyes widen at my words and his face falls, every ounce of fire gone from his gaze.   He backs away then smiles weakly at me. “Well, Merry Fucking Christmas Nina, because you have it all anyway.

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

When distrust is so profound that it makes you wary of every word dripping from honeyed lips... It sharpens your instincts...Now for a woman, THAT is a powerful weapon...

When industries don’t change with time, Someone like Elon Musk will push the industry towards the change. Change is an integral part of the evolution process. How can we stop the change to happen?

Where were you when I undressed and told the tales of my day? Where were you when I was silent with God in prandial pray? Where were you when I recited love poems as I lay? Where were you?

Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live their lives in fear, in a prison of the heart.

Always trust people and they may let you down. Always distrust people and you have let them down.

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

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

Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.

distrust ... is the beginning of hatred.

Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.

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!

Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

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

Distrust unsolicited advice.

Distrust my wisdom, but regard my truth.

... I distrust manifest knowledge.

I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom.

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

I don't know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I've come to distrust the words of those who have presumed to do so.

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

It is distrust of God to be troubled about what is to come; impatience against God to be troubled with what is present; and anger at God to be troubled for what is past.

If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.

I learned to distrust writers who talked about how they squeezed the blood onto the typewriter. They just don't want you to know how much fun they have - you'll resent it.

I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.

Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue

It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.

Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other.

Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy, is often sufficient to make a person become one.

O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!

Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.

Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat.

Seek simplicity, then distrust.

Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.

Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.

The day must come when trust will be as natural to your nature as distrust now seems to be.

The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it.

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

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

The one to distrust is the person who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried and the trivial.

The subject of contemporary art should include a political dimension, the distrust contemporary art has towards the existing order. One manifestation of this distrust is the mechanical dichotomization between art's form and its political content; the other is the institutionalizing tendency of anti-institutionalization. We almost never resist ourselves - the part of ourselves that has been institutionalized. We have occupied the word "resistance" and have become its owner, while "resistance" has become our servant. Thus, we own "resistance" and occupy it as a position of power.