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Trust Quotes by Robert C. Solomon
- All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.
- Building trust begins with an appreciation and understanding of trust, but it also requires practice and practices.
- Building trust means thinking about trust in a positive way.
- Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.
- Many people are blind to trust, not so much to its benefits as to its nature and the practices that make it possible.
- True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.
- Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked.
- Trust is a skill learned over time so that, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves, usually without much reflection.
- Trust is a skill, one that is an aspect of virtually all human practices, cultures, and relationships.
- Trust is almost always conditional, focused, qualified, and therefore limited.
- Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.
- Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.
- We also confuse trust with familiarity.
- Trust is built step by step, commitment by commitment, on every level.
- Peace comes with trust, which will grow from continuing efforts toward mutual understanding and trade, Romeo-and-Juliet-style marriages, conversations,negotiations, and individual commitments.
More Trust Quotes
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- None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel. — Bashar al-Assad
- The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. — Avicenna
- I don't want the United States to be in a global economy where our economic future is bound to that of Zimbabwe.… — Michele Bachmann
- Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and… — Francis Bacon