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Distrust Quotes

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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

Authors on Distrust Quotes: Francois de La Rochefoucauld Aesop Wang Jianwei Friedrich Nietzsche William Shakespeare Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Alfred North Whitehead Henri Frederic Amiel Seneca the Younger Allen W. Wood Ursula K. Le Guin Pierre Omidyar Louis MacNeice Neville Cardus Edmund Burke George R. R. Martin Seth MacFarlane Amelia Barr Maria Gowen Brooks Tamora Pierce Deepak Chopra Frank Pittman Niccolo Machiavelli Elsa Triolet Rita Mae Brown Andrew Carnegie George Eliot Ralph Fiennes Cheng Yen Margaret of Valois Wendell Phillips Ella Wheeler Wilcox Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
2.
O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!
William Shakespeare

3.
Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.
Andrew Carnegie

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When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.
Niccolo Machiavelli

5.
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
Benjamin Franklin

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Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.
Frank Pittman

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The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it.
Francois Fenelon

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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 Cardus

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There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them.
Vaclav Havel

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Distrust unsolicited advice.
Aesop

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He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.
Henri Frederic Amiel

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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
Ralph Fiennes

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I distrust anything that you don't hear.
Leo Ornstein

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Seek simplicity but distrust it.
Alfred North Whitehead

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It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.
George Eliot

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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

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But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!
Friedrich Nietzsche

18.
Distrust interested advice.
Aesop

19.
There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.
Elsa Triolet

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I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.
Edmund Burke

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Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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When there is more gratitude, there is less distrust.
Cheng Yen

23.
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
Edward Abbey

24.
Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
George R. R. Martin

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I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.
Tamora Pierce

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I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.
Anthony Hopkins

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Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go.
Louis MacNeice

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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
Idries Shah

30.
Distrust my wisdom, but regard my truth.
Maria Gowen Brooks

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Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other.
Ronald Reagan

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Οur own distrust somewhat justifies the deceit of others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.
Amelia Barr

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Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.
Seneca the Younger

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The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical.
Alexander MacLaren

37.
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
Anne Carson

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In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.
Wendell Phillips

40.
... I distrust manifest knowledge.
Rita Mae Brown

41.
If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.
Pierre Omidyar

42.
Seek simplicity, then distrust.
Alfred North Whitehead

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distrust ... is the beginning of hatred.
Margaret of Valois

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Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy, is often sufficient to make a person become one.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

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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

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Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.
Allen W. Wood

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When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The day must come when trust will be as natural to your nature as distrust now seems to be.
Deepak Chopra

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Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.
William Shakespeare

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Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.
Georg C. Lichtenberg