Top 100 Quotes About Mistrust
#1. There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
Robert Kennedy
#3. Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
Helen Keller
#4. Choice in any sphere is a peril, the basic division of peoples is of those who believe in choice and those who mistrust it.
Nayantara Sahgal
#6. Music speaks directly to the heart. This response, this echo within the heart, is proof that human hearts can transcend the barriers of time and space and nationality. Exchanges in the field of culture can play an important role in enabling people to overcome mistrust and prejudice and build peace.
Daisaku Ikeda
#7. If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
#8. Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
Victor Hugo
#9. Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.
Alec Guinness
#10. We youths say "like" all the time because we mistrust reality.
James S. Kunen
#11. Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.
James Surowiecki
#13. What happens when the sowers of mistrust become its reapers?
Rick Yancey
#14. We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.
Denise Scott Brown
#15. Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#16. By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm.
William Shakespeare
#17. I have long seen my spirituality as personal, to the degree that I harbor a slight mistrust for anyone who practices similarly. It is as though they are admitting to have on the same cut and color of underwear I do. It may be true, but I don't like to share these details with strangers.
Thomm Quackenbush
#18. Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the end will destroy thee.
H. Rider Haggard
#19. Your enemy will always plan to destroy you in any way possible thus take care of your friends, he may use them.
Auliq Ice
#20. Mists may blur vision,
Doubts to lies are heavy mists,
Truth clears for all ways."
~ Angelica Hopes, Haiku
an excerpt from If I Could Tell You
Angelica Hopes
#21. When there is a bit mistrust, jealousy will arise and ended with misunderstanding
Tun Teja
#22. Developing concern for others, thinking of them as part of us, brings self-confidence , reduces our sense of suspicion and mistrust, and enables us to develop a calm mind.
Dalai Lama
#23. Emotions flickered in the amber depths, one after another, like lightning bugs winking on and off. Disgust. Anger. Mistrust. Suspicion. Curiosity.
Jennifer Estep
#25. Or wasn't this city really the sum of every little selfishness, every ignorance, every act of laziness and mistrust and unkindness ever committed by anybody who lived there,
Garth Risk Hallberg
#26. But Psyche uplifting her finger said: Sadly this star I mistrust
Edgar Allan Poe
#27. Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.
Ivan Krastev
#28. Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
Sophocles
#29. You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
Chuck Palahniuk
#30. You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry.
"No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.
J.K. Rowling
#31. As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.
D.T. Max
#32. We can work together but we can't just work with each other.
Auliq Ice
#33. Arik passed another smug look to Brian, then to
Megeara. He was getting tired of her mistrust - not that he
didn't deserve it. It was merely causing him aggravation - an
interesting emotion that. He didn't like it. It was too
aggravating.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#34. Give me a piece of cake from your love-life;
I'll show you how to lick fidelity's cream
off every layer you mistrust.
Munia Khan
#35. But we have learned to mistrust and despise our human aptitude for being entertained, and in that sense we get the entertainment we deserve.
Michael Chabon
#36. The 2009 debate over Afghanistan troop levels both typified and further fueled the mutual mistrust between the White House and senior military officials.
Jim Mattis
#37. I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together
Ernest Hemingway,
#38. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.
E. M. Forster
#39. Maybe I am just your priest - or a churl - perhaps you mistrust me the way the medievals mistrusted monks ...
John Geddes
#40. The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely right.
Auberon Waugh
#41. It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.
Christian D. Larson
#42. If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
Alan W. Watts
#43. He who sincerely seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose. As he concentrates on that search a light begins to clear his confusion, call it revelation, call it inspiration, call it what you will. It is mistrust that misleads. Sincerity leads straight to the goal.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#44. Conceived in mistrust, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created evil.
Harper Lee
#46. A man in loss is not a man to trust.
Auliq Ice
#47. I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.
Michelangelo Antonioni
#48. I was attracted to the concept of Hollywood and the lifestyle here. But I've grown to mistrust it because it has changed. I didn't bargain for digital access parking in some concrete structure. Real heaven for me was to drive somewhere and park right in front. Now the city is going vertical.
Edward Ruscha
#49. They mistrust you because they think you'll be the death of me," Roark said softly. "Tell me, Nix. Will you?
Jae T. Jaggart
#50. If thing is as clear as daylight, mistrust it! someone has made it so!
Agatha Christie
#51. A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
Michel De Montaigne
#52. In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end.
Claire Denis
#53. Trust can never be earned, but can only be given. But once you have it, you can damn sure lose it.
Auliq Ice
#54. Never again mistrust me. Don't turn your anger unfairly towards me. Trust isn't something I bestow easily. It's something precious. You have it or you don't. Like faith, like love. It's blind. It has to be. If I trust, if I love, I'll always believe you; no matter the circumstances.
Cristiane Serruya
#55. It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried.
Barack Obama
#56. I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is imperfect and circumscribed.
Gerhard Richter
#57. Too much of a self-centered attitude creates mistrust and suspicion in others, which can in turn lead to fear. But if you have more of an open mind, and you cultivate a sense of concern for others' well-being, then, no matter what others' attitudes are, you can keep your inner peace.
Dalai Lama
#58. The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust.
Paulo Freire
#59. Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns.
Gary Hamel
#60. I mistrust anyone ... if they're saying, 'Well, that market wants this,' and you're not part of that market.
Evan Williams
#61. The powers-that-be understand that to create the appropriate atmosphere for war, it's necessary to create within the general populace a hatred, fear or mistrust of others regardless of whether those others belong to a certain group of people or to a religion or a nation.
James Morcan
#62. Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player
Siegbert Tarrasch
#63. I opened my mouth to exclaim about the puppies. They were beauty and joy and innocence made of flesh and fur, in an ugly time when fear and sadness and mistrust hung over the world like a sickly green tornado sky.
Kelly Milner Halls
#64. In this way, more information and more openness can, perversely, feed more mistrust and more wild speculation: The more we know, the more we realize just how in the dark we truly are.
Christopher L. Hayes
#65. If we stand passively by while the centre of each city becomes a hive of depravation, crime and hopelessness ... if we become two people, the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear for the other ... then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#66. Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
Sallust
#67. Why shouldn't gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else? What it comes down to, ultimately, is love. How can anything bad come out of love? The bad stuff comes out of mistrust, misunderstanding and, God knows, from hate and from ignorance.
Elizabeth Taylor
#70. Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer
#71. I think you've had a very hard life," Passion said calmly, "and you see everyone and everthing through a lens of mistrust." - Passion to Marcus
Ripley Patton
#72. The mistrust and resentment they brought with them, the way tribes feared anything new, anything from outside the camp's tight confines.
Ian Rankin
#73. I always think instinct is more interesting than anything you can think up. I mistrust and am rather bored with actors who are of the Stanislavski school who think about detail.
Denholm Elliott
#74. Love and faith are not common companions. More commonly power and fear consort with faith ... Power is not to be crossed; one must respect and obey. Power means strength, whereas love is a human frailty the people mistrust. It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.
Saul D. Alinsky
#75. Eyes and ears are not the problem ... It is rage that blinds and deafens us. Or fear. Envy, mistrust. The world contracts, gets all out of joint when you are angry or afraid.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#76. Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids.
Marge Piercy
#77. Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action ...
Aristotle.
#78. I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.
Edgar Quinet
#79. I mistrust these people in music industry who can be everybody. This is where technology dictates to them. I mistrust that, that in somehow the chips capture the soul of a player, that's patent nonsense.
Elvis Costello
#80. A vampire?" MacAullif said.
There is no way I can do justice to the skepticism, sarcasm, and mistrust with which MacAullif managed to imbue the word.
"That's right."
"You want me to find a vampire?"
"I'd be relieved if you could. I'm afraid he might be dead.
Parnell Hall
#83. Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
William Collins
#84. Doubt is a disease that infects the mind creating a mistrust of peoples motives and ones own perceptions. Doubt has the ability to call into questions everything you ever believed about someone and reinforce the darkest suspicions of our inner circle.
Emily Thorne
#85. People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads them to mistrust scientists and, to their detriment, what they discover.
Lisa Randall
#86. That was the thing I hated, that I'd made such a lousy choice. But I didn't. You set out to convince me you were exactly what I was looking for. I had no reason to mistrust you. You lied, I didn't.
Susan Mallery
#87. Having two women - one who can't know about the other, and one who must be trusted not to destroy his life - is clearly difficult for him.
Jennifer Harrison
#88. Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over fact and truth. Figurative language is suspicious.
Mary Ruefle
#89. She had always had a slight mistrust of busy people; the sort of people who described themselves as 'Flat-out Frantic!' What was the hurry? Why didn't they just slow down? Just what exactly were they so busy doing?
Liane Moriarty
#90. Never mistrust, unless given a reason.
Sonia Rumzi
#91. 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
#92. We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
Joseph Joubert
#93. If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.
Jasmine Guy
#94. Sometimes it is better to have someone you mistrust close to you, so that you can keep an eye on him - Chiron
Rick Riordan
#95. Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.
Hugh Mackay
#96. You say you don't mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom - Hell is paved with priests' skulls ...
John Geddes
#97. If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.
Mooji
#98. The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.
Kurt Andersen
#99. If you are a libertine, if you're not given to long-term faithful relationships, you tend to project your behavior onto everyone else. It's like the person who knows they're not trustworthy; they tend to mistrust everyone else.
Ben Kingsley
#100. Holy crap, my heart was arrogant to believe her spotless track record could stay that way.
Jennifer Harrison