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• Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.

  Janet Malcolm

  Betrayal, Loneliness, Stupid

  The Journalist and the Murderer pt. 1 (1990)

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• If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little, even at the risk of being heroes.

  Thomas More

  Betrayal, Hero, Humility

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• Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it. Cultivate regular periods of silence and meditation. The best time to build judgment is in solitude, when you can think out things for yourself without the probability of interruption.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Time, Thinking, Silence

  Grenville Kleiser (1949). “Make Your Life Worth Living”

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• St John of the Cross told us that if a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark. I interpret that as a direction for us to trust in the guidance we receive from our invisible self.

  Wayne Dyer

  Eye, Dark, Men

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• Always seek the general and never quite trust it.

  Joseph Epstein

  Never Quit

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• Until, accustomed to disappointments, you can let yourself rule and be ruled by these strings or emanations that connect everything together, you haven't fully exorcised the demon of doubt that sets you in motion like a rocking horse that cannot stop rocking.

  John Ashbery

  Horse, Disappointment, Doubt

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.

  Karl Kraus

  Mean, Vain, Call Me

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspire, Doubt, Littles

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• Trust, but look for the exits.

  Mason Cooley

  Exit, Looks

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• When understanding would be too difficult, I become trusting.

  Mason Cooley

  Understanding, Would Be, Difficult

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• I trust you because I need you.

  Mason Cooley

  Needs, Need You, I Trust You

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• Trust in things being as they are is the secret of life. But we don't want to hear that. I can absolutely trust that in the next year my life is going to be changed, different, yet always just the way it is.

  Joko Beck

  Years, Secret, Different

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• It might be that some day I shall be drowned by the sea, or die of pneumonia from sleeping out at night, or be robbed and strangled by strangers. These things happen. Even so, I shall be ahead because of trusting the beach, the night and strangers.

  Janet Reno

  Courage, Beach, Sleep

  "Janet Reno's Choice" by Lincoln Caplan, www.nytimes.com. May 15, 1994.

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• For most of my adult life, I have been an emotional hit-and- run driver--that is, a reporter. I made people like me, trust me, open their hearts and their minds to me, and cry and bleed on to the pages of my neat little notebooks, and then I went back to a safe place and made a story out of it.

  Anna Quindlen

  Notebook, Running, Heart

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.224, Ballantine Books

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• It's better to be trusted than to be liked.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Priorities, Popularity

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.455, Mango Media Inc.

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• I knew a pure heart who refused tot be mistrustful.... He had written at his doorstep: "From wherever you are, enter and be welcome". Who do you think responded to this lovely invitation? The militia, who made themselves at home and gutted him.

  Albert Camus

  Home, Heart, Thinking

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• You trust wholly or not at all. Trust was not divisible.

  Helen Kieran Reilly

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• I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never take anything the wrong way that they know to stem from good, honest and loyal hearts.

  Francois Rabelais

  Reading, Heart, Mean

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• Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Truth, Taken, Credit

  Michel de Montaigne (1603). “Essayes”

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• I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Kings, Believe, Writing

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”

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• Trust, like love, is a word that has great power Everybody deserves their own space, in their own time. You are even entitled to keep secrets. But it is not secrets that destroys things, suspicion does. For it may take many years to build trust, sometimes.. all it takes is suspicion, you don't even need proof to destroy trust. So, if you say you can trust someone, you're admitting to something that is even greater than love. Trust, like love, is a word that has great power.

  Rita Zahara

  Love Is, Years, Like Love

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• A noble person confers no such gift as his whole confidence: none so exalts the giver and the receiver; it produces the truest gratitude. Perhaps it is only essential to friendship that some vital trust should have been reposed by the one in the other. I feel addressed and probed even to the remotest parts of my being when one nobly shows, even in trivial things, an implicit faith in me.... A threat or a curse may be forgotten, but this mild trust translates me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Gratitude, Should Have

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.49, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think
  My charges false and all too rashly made.

  Ovid

  Love, Thinking, Made

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• The hundred-point man is one who is true to every trust; who keeps his word; who is loyal to the firm that employs him; who does not listen for insults nor look for slights; who carries a civil tongue in his head; who is polite to strangers without being fresh; who is considerate toward servants; who is moderate in his eating and drinking; who is willing to learn; who is cautious and yet courageous.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Drinking, Men, Loyal

  Elbert Hubbard (1908). “Health & Wealth”

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• It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.

  Henry Fielding

  Maxims, Persons

  Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy (1783). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: With the Life of the Author. In Twelve Volumes. A New Edition. To which is Now First Added, The Fathers; Or, The Good-natured Man”, p.332

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