Distrust Quotes

299 quotes by 248 authors

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away. — Shakti Gawain
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. — William E. Gladstone
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am… — Ursula K. Le Guin
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. — Confucius
Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty. — Norman Douglas
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? — George Eliot
You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling. — Ralph Fiennes
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little… — E. M. Forster
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. — Frank Herbert
When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith. — Ernest Holmes
What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not… — Lyndon B. Johnson
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity.… — Stephen King
A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity. — Dalai Lama
The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever, ever had. And as the disconnect grows and as more and… — Rush Limbaugh
When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both… — Niccolo Machiavelli
I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings. — George R. R. Martin
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. — H. L. Mencken
There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now… — Alan Moore
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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