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Would there be any truth in saying that psychology was created by the sophists to sow distrust between man and his world?
— Rudolf Arnheim
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Alone isn't a bad place to be, especially when it's the alternative to distrust and unhappiness, but
— Carolyn Brown
Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
Our distrust is very expensive.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.
— Nicole Krauss
Seek simplicity but distrust it.
— Alfred North Whitehead
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Yet I have come to distrust book jackets calculated to prick desire like a Bloomingdale's window, as if you could wear what you read.
— Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.
— Brian Herbert
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
— William Ewart Gladstone
Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.
— Frank Pittman
Smith, I distrust any kind of Buddhism or any kinda philosophy or social system that puts down sex said Japhy (Gary Snyder)
— Jack Kerouac
time to overcome her distrust of the
— Winston Graham
Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
— Malcolm Cowley
A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization.
— Charles Krauthammer
We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust.
— Stephen Covey
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Distrust all those in whom the urge to punish is strong.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.
— Christopher Hitchens
Best to distrust this retrospective radiance: gold dust settles over memory and makes it shine.
— Lauren Groff
There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.
— James Madison
There were a thousand secrets in her eyes, a thousand wounds. A lifetime of distrust and betrayal. Isolation. How did one overcome such things?
— Christine Feehan
Where there is desire, the means to fulfill it are endless.
— A.J. Darkholme
The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
The day must come when trust will be as natural to your nature as distrust now seems to be.
— Deepak Chopra
Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.
— Amelia Barr
Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Distrust turns quickly to dislike
— Patrick Rothfuss
There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.
— Elsa Triolet
The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myselfare identical. — Alexander MacLaren
Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.
— Eric Alterman
We ought to be afraid of being afraid, lest we should vex the Holy Spirit by foolish distrust.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
to break the bonds of distrust is natural human sympathy. Pity has killed more people than hate.
— Rick Yancey
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
"Wonderful things can happen", Vincent said, "when you plant seeds of distrust in a garden of assholes."
— Elmore Leonard
He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread while lilies flourish and the raven 's fed.
— Francis Quarles
If there is a mutual distrust between the weather forecaster and the public, the public may not listen when they need to most.
— Nate Silver
When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.
— Calvin Coolidge
Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go.
— Louis MacNeice
The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If like the leaf of the wisteria through which the sun darts his rays transparently you give your heart to me, I will no longer distrust you
— Murasaki Shikibu
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
— Samuel Butler
Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated ... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.
— Wendell Phillips
Once dishonesty is introduced, distrust becomes the hallmark of future dealings or associations.
— Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
Misunderstanding and distrust - the predominant elements of a novel. Without them, everyone lives happily from beginning.
— Carmen DeSousa
Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
— Norman Douglas
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
— George Eliot
I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
— Nikki Giovanni
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
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
Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.
— L.M. Montgomery
She's everything I wanted when I was young and everything I distrust now that I'm not.
— Walter Kirn
Our distrust justifies the deceit of others.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
— Henry David Thoreau
When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
— Samuel Johnson
Distrust ... is the beginning of hatred.
— Margaret Of Valois
A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous.
— Aravind Adiga
Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat.
— Wes Fesler
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
There is no day that one should skipBut one should seize, without distrust,
The possible with iron grip — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.
— Phil Zimmermann
Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs.
— Dean Koontz
Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
But this upland pass was the right place for remembering how, when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness underneath every soft appearance.
— Nuala O'Faolain
However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.
— Dashiell Hammett
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
— Edward Abbey
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch.
— Herman Melville
Always trust people and they may let you down. Always distrust people and you have let them down.
— Ron Kaufman
However we distrust the sincerity of those whom we talk with, we always believe them more sincere with us than with others.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
