Distrust Quotes

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  In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

  Michael Jackson

  Inspirational, Dream, Hate

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Feb 01, 2017

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• I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspirational, God, Death

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

  Norman Douglas

  Firsts, Authority, Should

  Norman Douglas (1922). “Alone”

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• We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

  Tennessee Williams

  Truth, Betrayal, Defense

  Camino Real (1953).

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• Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

  Golda Meir

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Distrust those who love you extremely upon a slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Friendship, Trust, Love You

  "The Modern Chesterfield".

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• It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

  Confucius

  Friendship, Trust, Betrayal

  "Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1665-1678.

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• The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Trust, Life Lesson, Men

  Henry L. Stimson (2016). “On Active Services In Peace And War”, p.416, Read Books Ltd

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• Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Parent, Liberty, Caution

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.24, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Relationship, Inspiring, Trust

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Francois Fenelon

  Mind, Use

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• What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

  George Eliot

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.935, Xist Publishing

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• Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Confidence, Men, Silence

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  Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

  Benjamin Spock

  Positive, Family, Trust

  The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

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• Our distrust is very expensive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Ethics, Expensive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

  Ernest Holmes

  Faith, Prayer, Doubt

  Ernest Holmes (2010). “Living Without Fear”, p.24, Penguin

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• A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Vanity, Atmosphere, Conceit

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• You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

  Alvin Toffler

  Wisdom, Data, Thought Provoking

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• I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

  E. M. Forster

  Greatness, Men, Blood

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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

  Frank Pittman

  Parent, Progress, Seems

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• Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

  Samuel Ullman

  Heart, Self, Dust

  "Youth". Essay by Samuel Ullman, www.beliefnet.com. 1920.

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• The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.

  Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

  Mistake, Men, Trust Issues

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• The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

  William Temple

  Inspirational, Men, Effectiveness

  Sir William Temple (1814). “The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart: To which is Prefixed, the Life and Character of the Author, Considerably Enlarged”, p.547

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• The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.

  Jean Racine

  Feelings, Mind, Lasts

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• The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Not Giving Up, Never Giving Up

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