Distrust Quotes · Page 8

The older I grew the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

— H L Mencken

On one thing, at least, men & women both agree: They both distrust women.

— Nikhil Saluja

Distrust is cancerous, once it starts it just keeps on spreading

— Anne Nwakama

“Distrust all those in whom the urge to punish is strong.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It takes immaturity to be hurt by the fact that someone does not trust you.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is…

— Henry L. Stimson

The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism.

— George Gilder

I trust my instincts. I don't distrust them. They haven't led me astray. It's when I've made up my mind to be…

— Dorothea Lange

“Distrust is like a vicious fire that keeps going and going, even put out, it will reignite itself, devouring the good with…

— Anthony Liccione

“But this upland pass was the right place for remembering how, when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness…

— Nuala O'Faolain

Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly, Of sad distrust and…

— Edmund Waller

When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair…

— John Piper

The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes…

— Benjamin Franklin

I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact…

— Lin Yutang

Seventy-five percent of voters now [in September 2016], according to the latest poll, want third-party candidates included in the debate. We have…

— Jill Stein

I distrust Great Men... I believe in aristocracy, though... Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all…

— E. M. Forster

Twilight of the Elites main thesis has been borne out far past what I could ever have imagined. The major idea was…

— Chris Hayes

You know, there's a growing level of disenchantment with governing institutions in Brazil. And in a sense, it's a healthy development because…

— Simon Romero

Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably…

— Marquis de Custine

“But we don’t merely meet each other as unique individuals or in healthy social circumstances. We meet each other in the current…

— David Brooks

“Do you still distrust me?” “No. Take your necklace with you so you can think of me when I’m not there.”
Brown brought…

— Max Nowaz

It is a matter of regret that many low, mean suspicions turn out to be well founded.

— E. W. Howe

Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

I have a sustained distrust for all politicians, even those with whom I agree on more issues than not.

— Dana Loesch

I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts.

— Terry Pratchett

Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.

— Anne Carson

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

— Frank Pittman

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“What is lonelier than distrust? Human beings very much need to feel trust and to be trusted by others.”

— Steven Stosny

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Lay down your cynicism, and believe in the transformational power of love.

— Anonymous

The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it.

— Francois Fenelon

“There is no day that one should skip But one should seize, without distrust, The possible with iron grip”

— Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.

— James Madison