When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed… — William Temple Copy Share Image
“You did not cause his despair. Had you treated him with distrust, you would have achieved nothing but the confirmation of his… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
“You either trust or you distrust coincidence. It 's either small doses of magic pulling you to your appointed destiny or the… — Toby Barlow Copy Share Image
Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Within a week or two the calm returned between us, but something was missing. Dad could feel it, too. The first casualty… — Ryan Knighton Copy Share Image
Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself. — Saadi Copy Share Image
Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight;… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
Some people argue against both optimism and pessimism in favor of so-called realistic thinking. They distrust optimism on the grounds that it… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
The ambiguous, gray areas of authority and responsibility between parents and teachers exacerbate the distrust between them. The distrust is further complicated… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
There was not one cause for our internment, but many - a deep-seated racial prejudice working on top of fear, distrust, and… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
You can say a thousand words in one day, some may trust you some may not, but what you have said in… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“I have learned an important principle: Simple things work, often to our dumbfounded surprise, for we tend to distrust the simple and… — Richard Cracroft Copy Share Image
Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The one person to distrust is the one who never makes a mistake. Either he is a phony, or he stays with… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which… — Edward Dmytryk Copy Share Image
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the only memories I have are those that I’ve created around photographs of me as a child. Maybe I’m… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.' — Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza Copy Share Image
There's no smoke without fire, but lack of security and self confidence can easily breed distrust and jealousy!! — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
“If like the leaf of the wisteria through which the sun darts his rays transparently you give your heart to me, I… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
“Alexander was no longer so much the master of his lust, having been fawned upon by Fortune, whom mortal men too little… — Andrew Chugg Copy Share Image
When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“The mutual distrust between the men who were just awakened and those who were ending a long night gave everyone a feeling… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Hello, Do not greet anybody when the heart is filled with anger distrust etc. Have, instead, a pure hollow from which a… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of… — Douglas Hurd Copy Share Image
It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear… — Georgie Anne Geyer Copy Share Image
And why do we worship hindsight (as in the news media's constant rehash of the day, the week, the year) and yet… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
