Distrust Quotes

299 quotes by 248 authors

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. — Samuel Butler
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. — Lord Chesterfield
Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented. — Eric Alterman
Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the… — Piers Anthony
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. — Susan B. Anthony
Our distrust is very expensive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't. — Nikki Giovanni
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them. — Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain… — Rabindranath Tagore
When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd… — W. E. B. Du Bois
I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and… — Laurens van der Post
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to… — Douglas MacArthur
Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself. — Saadi
The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect-to help people work together-and not as a… — Tim Berners-Lee
In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so their own needs. There is so much… — Margaret J. Wheatley
To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in the… — James Bovard
Obey your soul, have perfect faith in yourself. Never think of yourself with doubt or distrust, or as one who makes mistakes. — Wallace D. Wattles
I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical scheme, even if… — Paul Dirac
Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one… — Anatole France

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