Trust Quotes - Page 28

• We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

  William James

  Life, Truth, Philosophical

  William James (1970). “Essays in Pragmatism”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it might deify both.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Essence, Might

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.70, 谷月社

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• A man is already of consequence in the world when it is known that we can implicitly rely upon him. Often I have known a man to be preferred in stations of honor and profit because he had this reputation: When he said he knew a thing, he knew it, and when he said he would do a thing, he did it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Rely Upon, Honor

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• The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

  Samuel Butler

  Print Media, People, Ironic

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

  Robert Browning

  Time, Spring, Autumn

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1841-1846”, p.192, Pearson Education

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• As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Truth, Betrayal

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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• I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.

  Bryan Adams

  Heart, Guts, My Heart

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• I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.

  Frederick Douglass

  Government, Class, Liberty

  Frederick Douglass (1994). “Autobiographies”, p.815, Library of America

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• Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Government, People

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.106, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.

  Mildred H. McAfee

  Motivational, Courage, Ambition

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• We have met the enemy and he is us.

  Walt Kelly

  Peace, Fun, War

  Poster for Earth Day (1970). Also appeared in the Pogo comic strip for 8 Aug. 1970.

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• No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Echoes, Silence

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.16

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• How many times do you get to lie before you are a liar?

  Michael Josephson

  Betrayal, Integrity, Liars

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• Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Being Yourself, Betrayal

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• I think the most important issue we have as a people is what we started, and that is to begin to trust our own thinking again and belive in ourselves enough to think that we can articulate our own vision of the future and then work to make sure that that vision becomes a reality.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Future, Reality, Thinking

  "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation". Speech at Sweet Briar College, gos.sbc.edu. April 02, 1993.

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• The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Perfect, Diversity, Together

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• The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying upon the soul force within, the greater, the farther, the deeper, the broader, the more constructive may be the result.

  Edgar Cayce

  Soul, Intuition, May

  Edgar Cayce, John Van Auken (2006). “Psychic Sense: How to Awaken Your Sixth Sense to Solve Life's Problems and Seize Opportunities”, p.101, ARE Press

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• We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

  Oscar Wilde

  Betrayal, Integrity, Hypocrisy

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1491, Delphi Classics

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• All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application.

  Adolf Hitler

  Betrayal, Lying, Deception

  Adolf Hitler (1939). “Mein Kampf: Complete and Unabridged, Fully Annotated”

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• I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Money, Honesty, Betrayal

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.26, Modern Library

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• Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kings, Angel, Men

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• I get along with guys; most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.

  Paris Hilton

  Girlfriend, Men, Guy

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• If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world.

  Selena Gomez

  People, Three, World

  "Exclusive Interview: Selena Gomez". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. May 3, 2011.

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• Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Truth, People, Abuse

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• I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

  Charles Dickens

  Honesty, Business, Men

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.11724, Delphi Classics

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