Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Here is a couple more things I can't spell without you, disgust and distrust.” — Rickey Russell Copy Share Image
“Sometimes dishonesty, distrust and fiction can turn beauty into pure ugliness.” — Raxbeatz Copy Share Image
In a baby's first months, the earliest patterns of intimacy or distrust are forever grooved into his soul. — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
Gossip is the biggest enemy in a healthy relationship and creates distrust. — Ashish Vidyarthi 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
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
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
“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
The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is distrust of God to be troubled about what is to come; impatience against God to be troubled with what is… — Simon Patrick Copy Share Image
Besides the progress of industry and technique, we see a growing discontent among the masses; we see, besides the expansion ("expansion,", Fr.)… — African Spir Copy Share Image
I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt for people who are driven by ambition to conquer the world … those who… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict,… — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to… — Neville Cardus 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
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
“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
Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity… — Christopher Hitchens 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
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
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
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
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
I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I detest because it distresses me… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image