A Quote by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
French - Diplomat
February 2, 1754 - May 17, 1838

In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or translate my impulses into words, I am betraying the real thoughts and impulses which remain hidden.

Jerzy Kosinski

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

Van Wyck Brooks

When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.

Paul Schullery

Nearly everyone who is unemployed votes "Democrat." Nearly every immigrant, at least in the first generation, votes "Democrat." Nearly every non-white American votes "Democrat." The GOP know that so intellectually and financially bankrupt an administration should never have been re-elected - indeed, given the scale of electoral fraud practiced by the "Democrats," he may not actually have been re-elected (always supposing that he had the constitutional right to hold the office of president in the first place).

Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

Sallust

Poles have a mistrust of the West and an even deeper mistrust of the East.

Krzysztof Penderecki

But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had-power.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

...if the fear of falling into error is the source of a mistrust in Science, which in the absence of any such misgivings gets on with the work itself and actually does know, it is difficult to see why, conversely, a mistrust should not be placed in this mistrust, and why we should not be concerned that this fear of erring is itself the very error.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Too many Americans mistrust their government. And unnecessary government secrecy feeds this mistrust.

Janet Reno

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.