Distrust Quotes

299 quotes by 248 authors

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens — Malcolm Cowley
Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers. — Brian Herbert
Sometimes I think the only memories I have are those that Iâ€™ve created around photographs of me as a child. Maybe Iâ€™m creating my own… — Sally Mann
Some people argue against both optimism and pessimism in favor of so-called realistic thinking. They distrust optimism on the grounds that it causes us to… — Price Pritchett
If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose sombre shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good… — Fridtjof Nansen
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. — H. L. Mencken
To heal will require real effort, and a change of heart, from all of us. To heal means that we will begin to look upon… — Leonard Peltier
How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to… — Murasaki Shikibu
It is time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be commander in chief for three more critical years, and that… — Joe Lieberman
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization — Franz Boas
Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from the… — Michael Parenti
The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.... They cultivate hate and distrust of both Britain and Russia.… — Henry A. Wallace
The one person to distrust is the one who never makes a mistake. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the… — Peter Drucker
And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be said to be… — Eddie Rickenbacker
Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes. — Robert Breault
Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue — Roy Jenkins
Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark? — James F. Cooper
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling… — Charles Caleb Colton
For my part, I rather distrust men or concerns that rise up with the speed of rockets. Sudden rises are sometimes followed by equally sudden… — B. C. Forbes
Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured… — T.H. White

Who Wrote These Distrust Quotes

248 authors contributed a total of 299 Distrust Quotes, led by these top contributors: