Distrust Quotes

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

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.

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.

Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

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.

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.

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

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.

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

Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.

I distrust anything that you don't hear.

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

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.

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

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

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.