Distrust Quotes

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
Dalai Lama

Insecurity, Deep, Sense

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Confidence, Through, Hatred

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Life, Work, Anger

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

Friends, Deceived, Shameful

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
Benjamin Franklin

Parents, Security, Caution

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.
Joe E. Lewis

Else, Anyone, Week

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

Clothes, Enterprise, Requires

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

God, Wants, Desires

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

Clothes, Enterprise, Requires

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken

Age, Wisdom, Older

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.
John Wooden

Trust, Time, Find

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

Betrayal, Against, Defense

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

Truth, Else, Tell

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.
Stephen King

Life, Time, Good

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
George Eliot

Loneliness, Lonely

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Silence, Himself, Adopt

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

Life, Trust, Long

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

Mind, Greatest, Human

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

Important, Service, Matter

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
James Russell Lowell

Women, Men, Both

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, Doubt, Prayer

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

Great, Men, Around

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone

Trust, Fear, Prudence

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

The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever, ever had. And as the disconnect grows and as more and more people distrust them, then the media digs in more and more and says you don't know what you're talking about, you don't know how we do our jobs, you don't know what's important.
Rush Limbaugh

Today, Important, Talking

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Politics, Lost, Another

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
Susan B. Anthony

God, Wants, Fellows

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
Lord Chesterfield

Love, Reason, Visible

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.
Henry A. Wallace

Fear, Democracy, Small

Seek simplicity but distrust it.
Alfred North Whitehead

Simplicity, Seek

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