A Quote by Confucius

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Confucius

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Confucius
Chinese - Philosopher
551 BC - 479 BC

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

Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They have worried ever since about keeping it under. Distrust of its powers has been more common and more visible than distrust of the imperial authority of England ever was before the Revolution.

Edmund Morgan

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.

Luc de Clapiers

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

There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

Friedrich Nietzsche

As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.

Theodor Adorno

Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.

Thomas Jefferson

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

More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

Francis Bacon

Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.

C. S. Lewis

I have deceived my friends, and I had millions of them.

Charles Van Doren

You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!

Sasha Azevedo

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

Charles Caleb Colton

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