Quotes with distrust

  • The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
  • On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
  • 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.
  • Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • George Eliot What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • W. H. Auden America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Edward Hoagland Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bertrand Russell For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Susan B. Anthony I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do.
    Susan B. Anthony
    American women's rights activist (1820 - 1906)
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  • Joe E. Lewis I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.
    Joe E. Lewis
    American writer
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  • E. M. Forster I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Michael Jackson In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
    Speech Oxford (2001)
    Michael Jackson
    American singer, dancer and composer (1958 - 2009)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Seek simplicity but distrust it.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failure. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and, they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Edna St. Vincent Millay Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    American poet (1892 - 1950)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Sir William Temple 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.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Augustus William Hare The first step to self-knowledge is self-distrust. Nor can we attain to any kind of knowledge, except by a like process.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Benjamin Franklin 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 to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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