quotes about Distrust
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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 owned by big conglomerates.
-- Alan Moore -
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
-- Anne Carson -
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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When there is more gratitude, there is less distrust.
-- Cheng Yen -
The day must come when trust will be as natural to your nature as distrust now seems to be.
-- Deepak Chopra -
There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.
-- Elsa Triolet -
Our distrust justifies the deceit of others.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.
-- Frank Pittman -
Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.
-- George Eliot -
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I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
-- George R. R. Martin -
He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.
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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
-- Idries Shah -
The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.
-- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi -
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Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go.
-- Louis MacNeiceSource : "Twentieth Century Authors, a biographical dictionary of modern literature". Book by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, 1942.
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Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.
-- Neville CardusSource : Neville Cardus (2012). “Autobiography”, p.56, Faber & Faber
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I don't know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I've come to distrust the words of those who have presumed to do so.
-- Pete Hautman -
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If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.
-- Pierre Omidyar -
You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
-- Ralph Fiennes -
I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.
-- Tamora Pierce -
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Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.
-- Allen W. Wood -
The subject of contemporary art should include a political dimension, the distrust contemporary art has towards the existing order. One manifestation of this distrust is the mechanical dichotomization between art's form and its political content; the other is the institutionalizing tendency of anti-institutionalization. We almost never resist ourselves - the part of ourselves that has been institutionalized. We have occupied the word "resistance" and have become its owner, while "resistance" has become our servant. Thus, we own "resistance" and occupy it as a position of power.
-- Wang Jianwei -
I think revolution happens when you distrust anything in its current state, including yourself.
-- Wang Jianwei -
Distrust my wisdom, but regard my truth.
-- Maria Gowen BrooksSource : Maria Gowen Brooks (1834). “Zóphiël: Or, The Bride of Seven”, p.15
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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