Distrust Quotes

299 quotes by 248 authors

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Distrust brings frustration and fear. So therefore, the lonely feeling automatically come. So, lonely feeling is not creation of environment, but creation of your own… — Dalai Lama
The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty. — J C Ryle
The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him. — Mahatma Gandhi
When there is more gratitude, there is less distrust. — Cheng Yen
Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason â€“ that is, reason divorced from experience. — Benjamin Wiker
Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. — Christopher Hitchens
If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if… — Epictetus
Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of… — Douglas Hurd
In my suffrage work, I learned beyond question that the news coming through the great press agencies was colored and distorted; and if this has… — Alice Stone Blackwell
And why do we worship hindsight (as in the news media's constant rehash of the day, the week, the year) and yet distrust foresight, which… — Gavin de Becker
Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply. — Calvin Coolidge
If I try to use human influence strategies and tactics of how to get other people to do what I want, to work better, to… — Stephen Covey
It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself. — Nicole Krauss
When I arrived in America, though I had left the war physically far behind, in my mind, the soldiers were still chasing to kill me,… — Loung Ung
It is a matter of regret that many low, mean suspicions turn out to be well founded. — E. W. Howe
Our distrust justifies the deceit of others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor… — Learned Hand
However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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