Distrust Quotes

299 quotes by 248 authors

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him;… — Henry L. Stimson
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. — Henry David Thoreau
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment. — Alvin Toffler
Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise. — Henry A. Wallace
Seek simplicity but distrust it. — Alfred North Whitehead
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it. — Alfred North Whitehead
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. — Tennessee Williams
There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and… — John Wooden
There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of… — Geoff Mulgan
Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political… — Philip K. Dick
Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and… — Christopher Hitchens
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women. — Anne Carson
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that… — Ernest Hemingway
I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'. — Tamora Pierce
Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we… — Graham Greene
Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs. — Dean Koontz
His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it… — Jack London
I don't know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I've… — Pete Hautman

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