Cannot Be Trusted Quotes

#1. Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.

Nicolas Walter

#2. We need a voice from the outside because our own voices cannot be trusted.

Samantha Schutz

#3. People who do not keep their small agreements are people who cannot be trusted. If you cannot be trusted with small agreements, people will not help you make your big dreams come true.

Anonymous

#4. Republicans cannot be trusted to end the culture of corruption,

Harry Reid

#5. our daily associations cannot be trusted to make clear to the young the part played in our activities by remote physical energies, and by invisible structures. Hence a special mode of social intercourse is instituted, the school, to care for such matters.

John Dewey

#6. Anything you say at this point cannot be trusted. You know I am well and truly angry, so you are in the grip of fear. This means I cannot trust any word you say, as it comes from fear. You are clever, and charming, and a liar. I know you can bend the world with your words. So I will not listen.

Patrick Rothfuss

#7. I was right. Mrs. Patterson is neat and organized. She cannot be trusted.

Matthew Dicks

#8. Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.

George Ayittey

#9. I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted.

Brandon Sanderson

#10. The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

Harry S. Truman

#11. Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest - forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.

Hannah Arendt

#12. Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.

Stephen King

#13. We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.

Alison Croggon

#14. Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.

Joyce Meyer

#15. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Albert Einstein

#16. Man cannot be trusted unless they are watched

Bram Stoker

#17. Fear cannot be trusted ... It exaggerates everything. It is both treacherous and dishonest.

David Gemmell

#18. Beauty can be like that. Beauty cannot be trusted. Beauty can slip through your fingers like water and burn on your tongue like poison. Beauty can be the shining wall that keeps you from all you love.

Cassandra Clare

#19. When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei [the voice of the people is the voice of God], as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science.

Charles Darwin

#20. This is the greatest paradox: the emotions cannot be trusted; yet it is the emotions that tell us the greatest truths.

Don Herold

#21. Generals cannot be trusted with anything, not even with war.

Georges Clemenceau

#22. If there is a single circumstance that can occur outside of God's control, then God is not God, and He cannot be trusted. That's what sovereignty means - God is God, no one else is, and He has absolute control.

Justin Buzzard

#23. Bruna nodded. We keep the knowledge of the old world for the day it will be needed again, but that knowledge comes with a great responsibility. If the histories of the ancient wars of man tell us anything, it's that men cannot be trusted with the secrets of fire.

Peter V. Brett

#24. It is arrogant to believe that you know what is true for you. Surely you know in your own life with you that you cannot be trusted.

Matt Chandler

#25. When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

Alan Keyes

#26. The words of men cannot be trusted, especially men like you!

Olga Goa

#27. The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.

Nick Cave

#28. Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Lawrence Dale Bell

#29. They see I've got a head on my shoulders, and believe a thinking woman cannot be trusted.

Hannah Kent

#30. 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

#31. After trauma the world becomes sharply divided between those who know and those who don't. People who have not shared the traumatic experience cannot be trusted, because they can't understand it. Sadly, this often includes spouses, children, and co-workers. Later

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#32. I do not think that I am a person who cannot be trusted.

Bela Kun

#33. You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.

Ben Goldacre

#34. Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Albert Einstein

#35. Some people think African states cannot be trusted with the cookie jar. But there are absolutely good NGOs who have this feeling of human solidarity and who also recognize that their work can only be supplementary to the government.

Meles Zenawi

#36. But pieces of paper do not stop bullets and rockets. Paper promises that fall from the sky cannot be trusted.

Eric Blehm

#37. Yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

Jamaica Kincaid

#38. Many Liberals are rightly dismayed that on this vital issue of climate change we are not simply without a policy, without any prospect of having a credible policy but we are now without integrity. We have given our opponents the irrefutable, undeniable evidence that we cannot be trusted.

Malcolm Turnbull

#39. Rules are for the stupid, the clueless, those who cannot be trusted to do the right thing.

Jared Dillian

#40. Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word.

Jerry Bridges

#41. Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.

Anthony Lewis

#42. Teenage boys cannot be trusted. Their intentions are not pure.

Rachel Cohn

#43. One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace

Edith Wharton

#44. Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?

Patrick Henry

#45. An institution is right or it is wrong. One that cannot accept dinosaur bones is one that cannot be trusted on more important matters.

Fletcher Wortmann

#46. I write those words in steel for anything else not set in metal cannot be trusted.

Brandon Sanderson

#47. Remember this rule: intuition cannot be trusted in the absence of stable regularities in the environment.

Daniel Kahneman

#48. There are two kinds of persons which cannot be trusted in this world : the ones who do not greet you with a firm handshake and the ones who do not eat prawn heads.

Nelson Carvalheiro

#49. In matters of trust and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small, for the general principles which determine the conduct of men are indivisible. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

Albert Einstein

#50. As I walk alone in Hell, my mind becomes my only ally, and even he cannot be trusted.

K. Trap Jones

#51. There is a long history of monetary experience. It tells us that government is at heart a counterfeiter and therefore cannot be trusted to control money, and that this is true of both autocratic and popular government.

Garet Garrett

#52. To believe something and not live is like making fun of your abilities. You cannot be really trusted if you can dream and doubt its possibility.

Israelmore Ayivor

#53. Inerrancy means the word of God always stands over us and we never stand over the word of God. When we reject inerrancy we put ourselves in judgment over God's word. We claim the right to determine which parts of God's revelation can be trusted and which cannot.

Kevin DeYoung

#54. A person cannot trust another more than they can be trusted.

Paula Dickerson

#55. If people are really narcissistic or have a need to be seen as more than they really are, or to be admired as having it all together, then they cannot be followed and trusted by others.

Henry Cloud

#56. Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home from the woods and swamps like orchids. They must be placed in a conservatory, not in a carpenter shop; and they must be honored and trusted.

John Jay Chapman

#57. It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength.

Mary Stewart

#58. I am getting you a coffee machine. Your husband is a horrible person. He lies when he says hello. He cannot keep up with all the lies he tells. Everyone knows he is not to be trusted. Wake up Coffee machine on its way.

Ari Emanuel

#59. Trusted counselors, mentors and guides make an indelible mark on the lives they touch, and they provide the two ingredients to success in life
caring and sharing
that cannot be learned or purchased.

David Cottrell

#60. God can be trusted even when he cannot be seen or understood.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#61. In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#62. A man knows, on perfectly good evidence, that a pretty girl of his acquaintance is a liar and cannot keep a secret and ought not to be trusted: but when he finds himself with her his mind loses its faith in that bit of knowledge

C.S. Lewis

#63. Confucius said: "I do not see what use a man can be put to, whose word cannot be
trusted."
- The Analects of Confucius, 2.22
Confucius

Judith A. Boss