Quotes with distrust

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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Brene Brown 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
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Samuel Butler The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Lewis H. Lapham The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Vaclav Havel There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them - isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Tennessee Williams We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Hugh Blair Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.
    Hugh Blair
    Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician (1718 - 1800)
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  • Samuel Ullman Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
    Samuel Ullman
    American businessman, poet and humanitarian (1840 - 1924)
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  • Alvin Toffler 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
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • Graham Swift You may have your suspicions, your fears, you may even believe there is something, somewhere, terribly, drastically wrong, but because someone else is in charge, because there is a part of the system above you which you don't know, you don't question it, you even distrust your own doubts.
    Graham Swift
    English writer (1949 - )
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