These distrust quotes will inspire you. Distrust is a lack of belief or confidence in or the feeling that someone or something cannot be relied upon.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging distrust quotes, distrust sayings, and distrust proverbs.
Famous Distrust Quotes
- “In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.” ~ Michael Jackson
- “I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.” ~ Susan B. Anthony
- “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
- “Distrust and caution are the parents of security.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“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
- “What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?” ~ George Eliot
- “The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.” ~ Stephen King
- “The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.” ~ Frank Herbert
- “In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so 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
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“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.” ~ H. L. Mencken
- “Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” ~ Golda Meir
- “The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.” ~ Samuel Butler
- “When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.” ~ William E. Gladstone
- “The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.” ~ Jean Racine
- “On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.” ~ H. L. Mencken
- “But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.” ~ Frank Langella
- “Seek simplicity, and distrust it.” ~ Alfred North Whitehead
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“I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.” ~ Joe E. Lewis
- “Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens” ~ Malcolm Cowley
- “When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
- “The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization” ~ Franz Boas
- “What we won when all of our people united just must not now be lost in suspicion, distrust, selfishness, and politics among any of our people. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.” ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
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“Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “I distrust anything that you don’t hear.” ~ Leo Ornstein
- “The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.” ~ Alfred North Whitehead
- “Seek simplicity but distrust it.” ~ Alfred North Whitehead
- “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
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“I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.” ~ Edward Dmytryk
- “Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn’t go wrong. I don’t know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn’t done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.” ~ Piers Anthony
- “The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don’t understand what the real problems are.” ~ Aldrich Ames
- “Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.” ~ Henry A. Wallace
- “Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.” ~ Ellen Tauscher
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“Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.” ~ Douglas Hurd
- “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 those who love you extremely upon a slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason.” ~ Lord Chesterfield
- “Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.” ~ Louise Colet
- “It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.” ~ Confucius , Distrust quotes friends
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“A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.” ~ Samuel Johnson
- “Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.” ~ Benjamin Spock
- “Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.” ~ Golda Meir
- “The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one’s own opinions, and value others that deserve it.” ~ William Temple
- “We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.” ~ Tennessee Williams
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“The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
- “A usurper always distrusts the whole world.” ~ Vittorio Alfieri
- “Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.” ~ Norman Douglas
- “You feel yourself working to show something. I’ve learned to distrust that feeling.” ~ Ralph Fiennes
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“However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.” ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- “Our distrust is very expensive.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.” ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- “When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.” ~ Ernest Holmes
- “It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.” ~ George Eliot
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“I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence” ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
- “The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.” ~ Jane Porter , Distrust quotes love
- “The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.” ~ Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
- “Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.” ~ Frank Pittman
- “Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.” ~ Samuel Ullman
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“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
- “A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.” ~ Harold MacMillan
- “Men trust their ears less than their eyes.” ~ Herodotus
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“However much we may distrust men’s sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.” ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- “The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it.” ~ Francois Fenelon
- “Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.” ~ Billy Wilder
