Quotes about Distrust

Distrust and caution are the parents of security. Votes: 6

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. Votes: 4

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. Votes: 4

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it. Votes: 4

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. Votes: 4

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Distrust interested advice. Votes: 3

Distrust unsolicited advice. Votes: 3

Distrust my wisdom, but regard my truth. Votes: 3

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes Votes: 3

Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. Votes: 3

Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism. Votes: 3

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty. Votes: 3

Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. Votes: 3

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. Votes: 3

Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong. Votes: 3

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. Votes: 3

Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it. Votes: 3

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. Votes: 3

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. Votes: 3

Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Votes: 3

In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.' Votes: 3

( ...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete. Votes: 3

Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. He takes the measure of his own small soul, and thinks the world no larger. Votes: 3

Distrust brings frustration and fear. So therefore, the lonely feeling automatically come. So, lonely feeling is not creation of environment, but creation of your own mental attitude. Votes: 3

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! Votes: 3

Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life.‎ Votes: 3

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course. Votes: 3

Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one. Votes: 3

Seek simplicity, and distrust it. Votes: 2

Seek simplicity but distrust it. Votes: 2

A usurper always distrusts the whole world. Votes: 2

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust. Votes: 2

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization Votes: 2

You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling. Votes: 2

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. Votes: 2

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity. Votes: 2

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink. Votes: 2

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress. Votes: 2

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. Votes: 2

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. Votes: 2

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens Votes: 2

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort. Votes: 2

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith. Votes: 2

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment. Votes: 2

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a little judgment. Votes: 2

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away. Votes: 2

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration. Votes: 2

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are. Votes: 2

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much. Votes: 2

The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was to prevent any branch of the government from becoming too powerful. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him. Votes: 2

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together. Votes: 2

Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability. Votes: 2

In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together. Votes: 2

It took 10 months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. That no one can take from you. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy of ease. Votes: 2

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. Votes: 2

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody. Votes: 2

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe. Votes: 2

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry. Votes: 2

We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country. Votes: 2

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action Votes: 1

Seek simplicity, then distrust. Votes: 0

... I distrust manifest knowledge. Votes: 0

Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust. Votes: 0

Our distrust is very expensive. Votes: 0

I distrust all television doctors. Votes: 0

distrust ... is the beginning of hatred. Votes: 0

I distrust anything that you don't hear. Votes: 0

Our distrust justifies the deceit of others. Votes: 0

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? Votes: 0

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit. Votes: 0

In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust. Votes: 0

In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust. Votes: 0

I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings. Votes: 0

Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go. Votes: 0

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. Votes: 0

When there is more gratitude, there is less distrust. Votes: 0

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. Votes: 0

It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust. Votes: 0

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals. Votes: 0

There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust. Votes: 0

I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt. Votes: 0

The Iraq war fueled distrust of the press from both sides. Votes: 0

We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough. Votes: 0

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence Votes: 0

I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'. Votes: 0

A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship. Votes: 0

The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty. Votes: 0

Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women. Votes: 0

Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust. Votes: 0

I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting. Votes: 0

I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't. Votes: 0

No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting. Votes: 0

Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him. Votes: 0

Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there. Votes: 0

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization. Votes: 0

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. Votes: 0

Once dishonesty is introduced, distrust becomes the hallmark of future dealings or associations. Votes: 0

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself. Votes: 0

On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women. Votes: 0

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women. Votes: 0

The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it. Votes: 0

When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion. Votes: 0

It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself. Votes: 0

I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal. Votes: 0

Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect. Votes: 0

I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization. Votes: 0

The leather community is largely anarchistic and shares a healthy distrust of power and arrogance. Votes: 0

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance. Votes: 0

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes. Votes: 0

Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men. Votes: 0

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. Votes: 0

Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays. Votes: 0

I trust in you, Lord, but keep helping me in my moments of distrust and doubt. Votes: 0

Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye. Votes: 0

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin. Votes: 0

I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread while lilies flourish and the raven 's fed. Votes: 0

We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust. Votes: 0

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens. Votes: 0

The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity. Votes: 0

Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind. Votes: 0

There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust. Votes: 0

There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Votes: 0

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. Votes: 0

A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest. Votes: 0

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it. Votes: 0

In a baby's first months, the earliest patterns of intimacy or distrust are forever grooved into his soul. Votes: 0

Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other. Votes: 0

Always trust people and they may let you down. Always distrust people and you have let them down. Votes: 0

If I could identify one core problem about the world, it's that we've been taught to distrust ourselves. Votes: 0

Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark? Votes: 0

If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things. Votes: 0

Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat. Votes: 0

The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence. Votes: 0

The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism. Votes: 0

Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust. Votes: 0

Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit. Votes: 0

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man. Votes: 0

The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical. Votes: 0

The day must come when trust will be as natural to your nature as distrust now seems to be. Votes: 0

Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself. Votes: 0

However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others. Votes: 0

Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them. Votes: 0

The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him. Votes: 0

Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply. Votes: 0

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. Votes: 0

There is no distrust of men and mankind in me. They will answer before God, so why should I worry? Votes: 0

I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart. Votes: 0

Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs. Votes: 0

our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom and a strange kind of emptiness Votes: 0

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer. Votes: 0

It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly. Votes: 0

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers. Votes: 0

Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust. Votes: 0

Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived. Votes: 0

Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess. Votes: 0

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. Votes: 0

Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented. Votes: 0

Obey your soul, have perfect faith in yourself. Never think of yourself with doubt or distrust, or as one who makes mistakes. Votes: 0

Would there be any truth in saying that psychology was created by the sophists to sow distrust between man and his world? Votes: 0

Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly, Of sad distrust and jealousy. Votes: 0

Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself. Votes: 0

The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust the bourgeoisie. Votes: 0

There were a thousand secrets in her eyes, a thousand wounds. A lifetime of distrust and betrayal. Isolation. How did one overcome such things? Votes: 0

Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue Votes: 0

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. Votes: 0

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else. Votes: 0

The bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous love Votes: 0

Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience. Votes: 0

My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences. Votes: 0

The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression. Votes: 0

The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves. Votes: 0

It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist. Votes: 0

It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion. Votes: 0

Egypt, once a melting pot of peoples, classes, cultures and religions, has, after 30 years of Mubarak's rule, become a place of intolerance and distrust of the other. Votes: 0

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience. Votes: 0

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others. Votes: 0

The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch. Votes: 0

I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does. Votes: 0

Self distrust is good, but only if it leads to trust in God. Otherwise it ends as spiritual paralysis, inability and unwillingness to undertake any course of action. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates. Votes: 0

The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The one person to distrust is the one who never makes a mistake. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial. Votes: 0

Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an Islamic Republic is like. Votes: 0

How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze Votes: 0

A lot of people don't understand how a lot of money is being made. There's a combination of fear related to that, envy, distrust that gets filtered into that. Votes: 0

With intelligence and humility and dedication as our ammunition, we can wage the peace throughout the world with a strength beyond armies, destroying nothing except hate and greed and distrust. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear. Votes: 0

I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion. Votes: 0

Terence: As my old da used to tell me, 'never trust a rich man'.David: Good thing I'm only moderately rich.Terence: Which is why I only moderately distrust you. Votes: 0

When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you. Votes: 0

Assume that your worldview is not borne by the public. More than that: Do not assume that those who think differently are idiots. Before you distrust them, question your own assumptions. Votes: 0

So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers. Votes: 0

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 ... Votes: 0

You either trust or you distrust coincidence. It 's either small doses of magic pulling you to your appointed destiny or the devil trying to lead you down to the thorns. Votes: 0

Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

While these attitudes are more visible when directed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for. Votes: 0

Without trust and respect, only fear and distrust of others' motives and intentions are left. Without trust and respect between parties, it is nearly impossible to find good solutions to effective communication. Votes: 0

In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art. Votes: 0

The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement. Votes: 0

When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust. Votes: 0

When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger. Votes: 0

Bloody' has now become an important indicator of Australianness and of cultural values such as friendliness, informality, laid-backness, mateship - and perhaps even the Australian dislike and distrust of verbal and intellectual graces Votes: 0

The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den. Votes: 0

'Bloody' has now become an important indicator of Australianness and of cultural values such as friendliness, informality, laid-backness, mateship - and perhaps even the Australian dislike and distrust of verbal and intellectual graces Votes: 0

When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust. Votes: 0

And why do we worship hindsight (as in the news media's constant rehash of the day, the week, the year) and yet distrust foresight, which actually might make a difference in our lives? Votes: 0

In general, I distrust philosophy. Plato recommended chasing poets from the city; the 'great' Heidegger was a Nazi; Lukacs was a communist; and J. P. Sartre wrote: 'Any anti-communist is a dog.' Votes: 0

I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry. Votes: 0

Extremism is not endemic in my region, nor is anti-Western sentiment. No doubt there is discontent and distrust. That is towards more the American and some Western policies, and not toward the American people. Votes: 0

Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond [character] and the psychological approach in search of a syntax of types and characters which are "deconstructed and post-individual. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We always tend to distrust geniuses about genius, as if what they say didn't arouse much empathy in us, or as if we were waiting till some more reliable source of information came along... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular. Votes: 0

A government by secrecy benefits no one. It injures the people it seeks to serve; it damages its own integrity and operation. It breeds distrust, dampens the fervor of its citizens and mocks their loyalty. Votes: 0

Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, 'Trust me,' they're actually being very un-American. Votes: 0

We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact, we distrust him when he seems to be influencing us by his manner. Votes: 0

I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters. Votes: 0

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it. Votes: 0

The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it. Votes: 0

The military mind tends to be conservative, realistic and historical. The civilian mind tends to be liberal, idealistic and Utopian. Journalists, obviously, are civilians, and they tend to distrust, and to suspect, the military's motives. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0