Top 100 Quotes About Distrust
#1. 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
#2. Is it possible for white America to really understand blacks' distrust of the legal system, their fears of racial profiling and the police, without understanding how cheap a black life was for so long a time in our nation's history?
Philip Dray
#3. I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread while lilies flourish and the raven 's fed.
Francis Quarles
#4. I distrust the rash optimism in this country that cries, "Hurrah, we're all right! This is the greatest nation on earth," when there are grievances that call loudly for redress.
Helen Keller
#7. The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
Samuel Butler
#8. That divided and rebel mind, that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, these [158] have not. Their mind being whole, their eye is as yet unconquered, and when we look in their faces we are disconcerted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#9. 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
#10. I distrust those people who knew so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. Susan D. Anthony
John Ortberg
#11. The magic will not solve your problems. It will only add to them. The magic will not make people like you. It will increase their distrust. The magic will not ease your pain. It will twist and burn inside you until sometimes you think that even death would be preferable."
-Antimodes, "Soulforge
Margaret Weis
#12. Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
Norman Douglas
#13. The bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous love
Johnny Rich
#14. When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#15. 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
#16. I will have you without armor. Those were the words she'd said to Kaz aboard the Ferolind, desperate for some sign that he might open himself to her, that they could be more than two wary creatures united by their distrust of the world.
Leigh Bardugo
#17. Our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom and a strange kind of emptiness
Samuel Johnson
#18. Patience devastates us with the truth that, in essence, when we fear another, we fear ourselves; when we distrust another, we distrust ourselves; when we hurt another, we hurt ourselves; when we kill another, we kill ourselves.
Mark Nepo
#19. But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.
Frank Langella
#20. Slavery and rebellion are inseparable correlates. Hence, rivalry for power and exaggerated distrust pervade the entire organism from top to bottom.
C. G. Jung
#21. I know it's thankless to be sensible in the face of someone's primitive distrust.
Don DeLillo
#23. 88 One begins to distrust very clever persons when they become embarrassed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#25. Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.
Robert Breault
#26. The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#27. The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#30. Lord Petyr," Ned called after him. "I ... am grateful for your help. Perhaps I was wrong to distrust you." Littlefinger fingered his small pointed beard. "You are slow to learn, Lord Eddard. Distrusting me was the wisest thing you've done since you climbed down off your horse.
George R R Martin
#31. The Church needs a firm hierarchy and is forced to distrust such of her underlings as show a tendency to become too holy.
Gabriel Chevallier
#32. When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.
Ludwig Quidde
#33. The day must come when trust will be as natural to your nature as distrust now seems to be.
Deepak Chopra
#34. It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.
Nicole Krauss
#35. It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
John Irving
#36. In general, I distrust philosophy. Plato recommended chasing poets from the city; the 'great' Heidegger was a Nazi; Lukacs was a communist; and J. P. Sartre wrote: 'Any anti-communist is a dog.'
Claude Simon
#38. On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.
H.L. Mencken
#39. Russia's actions in Syria are not the only reasons to distrust Mr. Putin. Moscow has opposed attempts by the U.N. in November 2011 to increase sanctions against Iran for its illicit nuclear program.
John Barrasso
#40. Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular.
Brando Skyhorse
#41. A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
Dalai Lama
#43. The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a little judgment.
Brene Brown
#44. Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit by the cheat distrust the deceiver; and the act by which kindness was sought puts an end to confidence.
Samuel Johnson
#45. But I must admit.' he added with a queer laugh, 'that I hoped you would take me for my own sake. A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship. But there, I believe my looks are against me.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#46. It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius
#47. Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?
James F. Cooper
#48. Distrust brings frustration and fear. So therefore, the lonely feeling automatically come. So, lonely feeling is not creation of environment, but creation of your own mental attitude.
Dalai Lama
#51. The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
#52. I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences.
Antjie Krog
#53. We always tend to distrust geniuses about genius, as if what they say didn't arouse much empathy in us, or as if we were waiting till some more reliable source of information came along ...
Randall Jarrell
#54. Prenups are so unromantic - a sign of distrust, not love. Time for a reality check, my friends. First, drawing up a prenuptial agreement together is a sign of incredible trust and financial openness - you're fooling yourself if you think you can achieve complete intimacy without it.
Suze Orman
#55. And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.
Rachel Hartman
#56. Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.
Neville Cardus
#57. When Jesus tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he confides to us that he is 'acquainted with Grief', we listen, for that also is an Acquaintance of our own.
Emily Dickinson
#58. When there is more gratitude, there is less distrust.
Cheng Yen
#59. It seems like someone is using wars and our economic crisis to spread distrust and rancor among the population. In times like these, those are dangerous feelings to spread around.
Riccardo Bruni
#60. I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#61. Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. He takes the measure of his own small soul, and thinks the world no larger.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#62. If I could identify one core problem about the world, it's that we've been taught to distrust ourselves.
Shakti Gawain
#63. Best to distrust this retrospective radiance: gold dust settles over memory and makes it shine.
Lauren Groff
#64. There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them.
Vaclav Havel
#65. Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.
Calvin Coolidge
#66. We cannot be too cautious, Hannelore. Just because someone knocks on the door doesn't mean you have to open it. Sometimes, sweet girl, there are wolves at the door. If we are not careful, they might eat us.
Ruta Sepetys
#67. I've always liked that Galway Kinnell poem. 'Wait, for now. Distrust everything, if you have to. But trust the hours. Haven't they carried you everywhere, up to now?'" She had a fine voice for reciting poetry, deep-timbered and slow. "Doesn't that just make everything better?
Brittany Cavallaro
#68. In times of war, skepticism can be just cause for execution.
A.J. Darkholme
#69. If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.
Pierre Omidyar
#70. I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful but it is always coming out when you least expect it. In contrast to the pious language of the faithful, the liturgy is beautifully flat.
Flannery O'Connor
#71. To lack faith perhaps isn't as much an intellectual disbelief in the existence of God as fear and distrust that there is a good God.
Ann Voskamp
#72. If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose sombre shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.
Fridtjof Nansen
#73. A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#74. Thai culture, while rare in its distrust of thinking, is not unique. The Inuit frown upon thinking. It indicates someone is either crazy or fiercely stubborn, neither of which is desirable.
Eric Weiner
#75. It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist.
Georgie Anne Geyer
#76. And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I'm sorry it's the case, and I'll work hard to try to elevate it.
George W. Bush
#77. The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter.
F. Lee Bailey
#78. If it is indeed the business of imagination to make politics distrust itself - reminding it that its principles are not literal facts but constructs of imagination - it is also its business to encourage politics to remake itself by remaking its images of the good life.
Richard Kearney
#79. Da used to say that lies were easy, but trust was hard. Trust is like faith: it can turn people into believers, but every time it's lost, trust becomes harder and harder to win back.
Victoria Schwab
#80. "Wonderful things can happen", Vincent said, "when you plant seeds of distrust in a garden of assholes."
Elmore Leonard
#81. As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.
Dalai Lama
#82. I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical scheme, even if the scheme does not appear at first sight to be connected with physics. One should concentrate on getting interesting mathematics.
Paul Dirac
#83. Traveling ought also to teach him distrust; but at the same time he will discover, how many truly kind-hearted people there are, with whom he never before had, or ever again will have any further communication, who yet are ready to offer him the most disinterested assistance.
Charles Darwin
#84. You either trust or you distrust coincidence. It 's either small doses of magic pulling you to your appointed destiny or the devil trying to lead you down to the thorns.
Toby Barlow
#85. When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.
Shakti Gawain
#86. But how is that different from any other godforsaken stretch of coast half off the grid?" There were still dozens of them all across the country. Places that were poison to real-estate agents, with little infrastructure and a long history of distrust of the government.
Jeff VanderMeer
#87. The ambiguous, gray areas of authority and responsibility between parents and teachers exacerbate the distrust between them. The distrust is further complicated by the fact that it is rarely articulated, but usually remains smoldering and silent.
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
#88. The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology.
Karl Mannheim
#89. 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
#90. to break the bonds of distrust is natural human sympathy. Pity has killed more people than hate.
Rick Yancey
#91. Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.
Frank Bruni
#92. Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#93. Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.
William Shakespeare
#94. The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism.
George Gilder
#95. Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.
James Madison
#96. Here is a couple more things I can't spell without you, disgust and distrust.
Rickey Russell
#97. He was intensity. He was strength. He was driving will and stubborn determination. He was reckless passion and guarded distrust. He was fucking beautiful.
Carole Cummings
#98. 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
#99. His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
Jack London
#100. The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear
much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our
friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much
as possibly we can; to hearken.
Benjamin Franklin
