“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
These three causes distrust: a smoking doctor, a laughing priest and a combed chess player. — Ashot Nadanian Copy Share Image
Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading!… — Andrew Lang 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
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
Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Helping refugees settle and integrate peacefully, often in the face of distrust and prejudice, is essential work. — Katharine Viner Copy Share Image
“Da used to say that lies were easy, but trust was hard. Trust is like faith: it can turn people into believers,… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man. — Orlando Aloysius Battista Copy Share Image
The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I just think we all distrust people and institutions much more than we once did. And we tend to think elites run… — Christopher Michael Cillizza Copy Share Image
He destroyed in her the knowing, doubting, sophisticated Ella, and again and again he put her intelligence to sleep, and with her… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Our fraught way of life gives each of us a narrowly defined role, creating conditions conducive to developing only those elements in… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“The almost universal nature of within-group amity and between-group enmity, wherein the rule-of-thumb heuristic is to trust in-group members until they prove… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
But Russians, in their very nature, it seems, pass quickly from the highest enthusiam to complete dejection and distrust. They yield to… — Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia Copy Share Image
Life is like any other contact sport; you’re gonna get your knocks. But it’s not the knocks that count, it’s how you… — Sydney Banks Copy Share Image
I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
“Misanthropist’s manifesto: Do not tell a friend what your enemy ought not to know. Giving way neither to love nor hate is… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“And I was -- this is just how I was afraid you'd take it. I knew it, that you'd think this means… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me… Now,the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories;… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter.… — Peter David Copy Share Image
Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
