The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Let worthy minds ne'er stagger in distrust To suffer death or shame for what is just” — E. R. Eddison Copy Share Image
“I distrust official charity. All charity should be done by stealth.” — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Always trust people and they may let you down. Always distrust people and you have let them down. — Ron Kaufman Copy Share Image
I think having a healthy distrust of authority is a good thing, within certain parameters, obviously. — Fiona Bruce Copy Share Image
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust,… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
“But when you disarm them, you at once offend them by showing that you distrust them, either for cowardice or for want… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic… — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
Egypt, once a melting pot of peoples, classes, cultures and religions, has, after 30 years of Mubarak's rule, become a place of… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
“On the contrary, we have a very deep-seated distrust of real intellectual effort (probably because we suspect that it will destroy, as… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes your dearest friend whom you reveal most of your secrets to becomes so deadly and unfriendly without knowing that they were… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Augustine says that we may, out of our dead sins, make stepping stones to rise to the heights of perfection. What did… — James Stalker Copy Share Image
When you're out there in America, meeting with regular people, it's a pretty mellow, relaxed, kind-hearted country. The direction from the top,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“They may take you for a fool, promise to shower you with the world, use their canny devastating tongue to manipulate and… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“He needed so much to weep. All the distrust of life which misfortunes had brought to the little Värmland boy needed tears… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond [character] and the psychological approach in search… — Patrice Pavis Copy Share Image
It appears it would be quite un-American not to be suspicious of the government or to distrust it. History has taught them… — Ndabaningi Sithole Copy Share Image
For if I should not believe all that is written by Historians, of the glorious acts of Alexander, or Caesar; I do… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“The life that I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
For my part, I rather distrust men or concerns that rise up with the speed of rockets. Sudden rises are sometimes followed… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
What we're trying to do in conversational intelligence is not only define that trust continuum for people, not only helping them notice,… — Judith E. Glaser Copy Share Image
And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
“We doubt in others, what is in fact in ourselves. The skeletons in your own closet are the things that scare you… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
I think my deepest criticism of the educational system . . . is that it's all based upon a distrust of the… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
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