Top 221 Mistrust Quotes & Sayings

One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.

Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

You can love someone you mistrust.

I want to do something to change the mistrust towards politicians.

I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.

...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.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

I'm starting to mistrust my judgment.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Sometimes it is better to have someone you mistrust close to you, so that you can keep an eye on him - Chiron

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

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.

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.

Harmony can not thrive in a climate of mistrust, cheating, bullying; mean-spirited competition.

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.

Mistrust is the sure forerunner of hatred.

Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.

Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.

I would like to see a critical mass of very gifted anarchists come together in an appropriate place in order to do highly productive work. That's it. I don't know why that can't be done except for the fact that I think that people mistrust their own ideals today. I don't think that they don't believe in them; I think they mistrust the viability of them. They're afraid to commit themselves to their ideals.

I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is imperfect and circumscribed.

I do not overlook the fact that there are irrationalists who love mankind, and that not all forms of irrationalism engender criminality. But I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate. (Socrates, I believe, saw something of this when he suggested that mistrust or hatred of argument is related to mistrust or hatred of man).

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.

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.

As an elder I mistrust the wisdom of age.

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

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.

The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine.

But Psyche uplifting her finger said: Sadly this star I mistrust

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.

In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end.

The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.

I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through.

We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.

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

...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.

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.

As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.

We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Suspicion follows close on mistrust.

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.

I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.

Better mistrust undeserved than rash words.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned

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

I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.

Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.