Top 444 Distrust Quotes & Sayings

Distrust my wisdom, but regard my truth.

... I distrust manifest knowledge.

As the popular trust in science fades - and many sociologists say that's happening today - people will develop a distrust of purely "scientific" psychology. Researchers in the universities haven't picked up on this; they're more interested in genetics and computer models of thinking than ever. But, in general, there is a huge distrust of the scientific establishment now.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. He takes the measure of his own small soul, and thinks the world no larger.

When there is more gratitude, there is less distrust.

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?

I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.

Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.

Seek simplicity, then distrust.

The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.

I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.

Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.

And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels of despair that deepen social conflict the escalation of paranoia produces levels of distrust that reinforce cultural division. Rae is the most explosive issue in American life precisely because it forces us to confront the tragic facts of poverty and paranoia despair, and distrust. In short, a candid examination of race matters takes us to the core of the crisis of American democracy (p. 107).

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

Gossip is the biggest enemy in a healthy relationship and creates distrust.

One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . . you no sooner set up an idol firmly, than you are sure to pull it down and dash it into fragments: and this because directly you reward a benefactor, or a public servant, you distrust him, merely because he is rewarded . . . . Any man who attains a high place among you, from the President downwards, may date his downfall from that moment.

Our distrust is very expensive.

A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.

His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.

Distrust that man who tells you to distrust.

Labels such as, 'evangelical', 'fundamental', 'charismatic', 'liberal' contribute to polarization and produce a climate of implied or outspoken distrust. Respectful dialogue becomes virtually impossible. What we desperately need to offset this disunity and distrust is a new and cleansing theology of communication.

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!

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence

Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.

Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other.

The Iraq war fueled distrust of the press from both sides.

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

We distrust the electronic vote here.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Distrust interested advice.

distrust ... is the beginning of hatred.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

The distrust of the political system is unhealthy.

There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go.

I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.

And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I'm sorry it's the case, and I'll work hard to try to elevate it.

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.

The ambiguous, gray areas of authority and responsibility between parents and teachers exacerbate the distrust between them. The distrust is further complicated by the fact that it is rarely articulated, but usually remains smoldering and silent.

I distrust anything that you don't hear.

In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

The subject of contemporary art should include a political dimension, the distrust contemporary art has towards the existing order. One manifestation of this distrust is the mechanical dichotomization between art's form and its political content; the other is the institutionalizing tendency of anti-institutionalization. We almost never resist ourselves - the part of ourselves that has been institutionalized. We have occupied the word "resistance" and have become its owner, while "resistance" has become our servant. Thus, we own "resistance" and occupy it as a position of power.

Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.

Europeans distrust a Europe that overpromises and underdelivers.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Distrust unsolicited advice.

The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it.

It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.

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.

In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.

I distrust all television doctors.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.