Secrecy breeds distrust. You don't just expect to be trusted, you earn someone's trust by being open and honest. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Just a warning that on April Fool's Day my natural distrust of others will be ratcheted up to a level bordering on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
We always tend to distrust geniuses about genius, as if what they say didn't arouse much empathy in us, or as if… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I've become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it's difficult to tame the beast in… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“Smith, I distrust any kind of Buddhism or any kinda philosophy or social system that puts down sex said Japhy (Gary Snyder)” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“NONE HAS FAILED IN THEIR LIFE TRUSTING ME AND NONE HAS SUCCEEDED IN THEIR LIFE DISTRUSTING ME, I AM THE JUSTICE” — P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar Copy Share Image
Michael Brown's tragic death has revealed a deep distrust between some in the Ferguson community and its police force. It also developed… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The first beneficiary of compassion is always oneself. When compassion, or warmheartedness, arises in us and our focus shifts away from our… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Your cowardly self-delusions about “love” when you know as well as I do that there’s never been anything between us but contempt… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“I don’t know, I’m sure,” said Mrs. Burch. She had said that three times already. Her natural distrust of foreign-looking gentlemen with… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Moreover, it is difficult to reconcile Hobbes’s distrust for the individual with his confidence in the altruistic nature of the individual or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd be very suspicious of anybody that seems to have to move to the next level of expression. I distrust that: now… — Elvis Costello 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
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
While these attitudes are more visible when directed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union… — Robert Teeter Copy Share Image
Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten… — Ray Bradbury 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
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
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
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
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
There's no smoke without fire, but lack of security and self confidence can easily breed distrust and jealousy!! — Kemmy Nola 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
