#distrust

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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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

#distrust #get #intelligence #judgment #own

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#angry #capacity #daily #daily life #deceitful

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#betrayal #defense #distrust #each #only

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much. ↗

— John Wooden

#abraham lincoln #disappointed #distrust #find #i

A month ago, Gavin had given his employer four weeks' notice. "I'll get a job around here," he'd told her. "Something low-stress, part-time, maybe. We're not paying rent, and Dad's left us plenty. You should quit, too." A year earlier this news would have filled her with delicious, full fat, chocolate-coated joy. But now, after a grueling routine of shitty work, shitty- weird home life in a house where the shadow of a dead boy walked more solidly than the grownups, shitty headaches, shitty worry about a husband who couldn't keep his dick out of other women, the golden offer just weirded Laine out. She didn't trust it. ↗

— Stephen M. Irwin

#distancing-self #distrust #haunted #husband #jaded

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity. ↗

— Dalai Lama

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Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#any #distrust #extremely #love #love you

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#be the first #civic #distrust #duty #first

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word. ↗