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
To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Without trust and respect, only fear and distrust of others' motives and intentions are left. Without trust and respect between parties, it… — Deborah A. Beasley Copy Share Image
In general, I distrust philosophy. Plato recommended chasing poets from the city; the 'great' Heidegger was a Nazi; Lukacs was a communist;… — Claude Simon Copy Share Image
Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed… — William Temple Copy Share Image
There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which, we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“The magic will not solve your problems. It will only add to them. The magic will not make people like you. It… — Margaret Weis Copy Share Image
“At bottom, I sensed in others a distrust, an uneasiness. An antagonism, which, because it was instinctive, was irremediable. I should have… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own; and this is especially… — Joseph P. Farrell Copy Share Image
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
To heal will require real effort, and a change of heart, from all of us. To heal means that we will begin… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
So many forces and resources would become available if States, aware (or conscious) of their true (or real) mission, would want to… — African Spir Copy Share Image
“It is enough that you will lie beside me. That I can put my hand upon you.” Her expression went from wary… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
I am also about trusting maggot instincts. If I get played or taken advantage of? So be it. That's a life lesson.… — Masi Oka Copy Share Image
You can say a thousand words in one day, some may trust you some may not, but what you have said in… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“I have learned an important principle: Simple things work, often to our dumbfounded surprise, for we tend to distrust the simple and… — Richard Cracroft Copy Share Image
The one person to distrust is the one who never makes a mistake. Either he is a phony, or he stays with… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“You did not cause his despair. Had you treated him with distrust, you would have achieved nothing but the confirmation of his… — Stephen R. Donaldson 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
“You either trust or you distrust coincidence. It 's either small doses of magic pulling you to your appointed destiny or the… — Toby Barlow 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Zen goes directly to your own experience of the oneness of the universe, of your interconnectedness with all things. You learn to… — Jean Smith Copy Share Image