#distrust

The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes. ↗

— Brian Moore

#causes #distrusts #majority #people #silent

I distrust anything that you don't hear. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#distrust #hear #i #you

When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#between #danger #disarm #disarmament #distrust

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them. ↗

— Camillo di Cavour

#fewer #make #man #men #mistakes

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody. ↗

— Stephen King

#anybody #day #distrust #enough #get

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#distrust #him #i #i have learned #learned

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to. ↗

— William Temple

#authority #been #bred #confirmed #custom

Seek simplicity but distrust it. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#seek #simplicity

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. ↗

— George W. Bush

#distrust #humor #humor

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#idle-minds #idleness #suspicion #business