Distrust Quotes

Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue

O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!

Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.

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.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

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

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.

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

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

Distrust unsolicited advice.

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

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

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

I distrust anything that you don't hear.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.

I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.

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

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

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.

Distrust interested advice.

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!

There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.

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.

Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.

When there is more gratitude, there is less distrust.

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

Distrust my wisdom, but regard my truth.

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

Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go.

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

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

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

In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.

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

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

Οur own distrust somewhat justifies the deceit of others.

Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

I think revolution happens when you distrust anything in its current state, including yourself.

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

Extremism is not endemic in my region, nor is anti-Western sentiment. No doubt there is discontent and distrust. That is towards more the American and some Western policies, and not toward the American people.

Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.

Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

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.

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.

I distrust all television doctors.

I learned to distrust writers who talked about how they squeezed the blood onto the typewriter. They just don't want you to know how much fun they have - you'll resent it.

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

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

... I distrust manifest knowledge.