quotes about Mistrust
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If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
-- Alan Watts -
One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'
-- Carl Sagan -
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
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It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.
-- Christian D. Larson -
As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.
-- D. T. MaxSource : Interview with Samuel Cohen, logger.believermag.com. September 11, 2012.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
-- E. M. Forster -
I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.
-- Edgar QuinetSource : Edgar Quinet (1845). “Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society”, p.72
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In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health...
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.
-- Gamal Abdel Nasser -
Suspicion follows close on mistrust.
-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -
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The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine.
-- Ismail HaniyehSource : "1967: Our rights have to be recognised" by Ismail Haniyeh, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2007.
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Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.
-- Ivan Krastev -
Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.
-- James Surowiecki -
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
-- John Churton Collins -
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I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.
-- Lilli Palmer -
Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.
-- Mason Cooley -
The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust.
-- Paulo Freire -
Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.
-- Megan Lee -