These mistrust quotes will inspire you. Mistrust be suspicious of; have no confidence in.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging mistrust quotes, mistrust sayings, and mistrust proverbs.
Famous Mistrust Quotes
- “Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.” ~ Aristotle
- “Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.” ~ Helen Keller
- “Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
- “Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.” ~ Sophocles
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“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
- “Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.” ~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
- “Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.” ~ Ivan Krastev
- “The more two people open to each other, the more this wide-openness also brings to the surface all the obstacles to it: their deepest, darkest wounds, their desperation and mistrust, and their rawest emotional trigger points. Just as the sun’s warmth causes clouds to arise by prompting the earth to release its moisture, so love’s pure openness activates the thick clouds of our emotional wounding, the tight places where we are shut down, where we live in fear and resist love.” ~ John Welwood
- “The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.” ~ Jean Racine
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“Constant Kindness can accomplish much.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
- “Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Suspicion follows close on mistrust.” ~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- “Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns.” ~ Gary Hamel
- “One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.” ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
- “The world’s greatest need . . . is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another’s heart. Yet there is enough confidence between mother and child, husband and wife, buyer and seller . . . to make social life a practical possibility. Confidence may be risky, but it is nothing like so risky as mistrust.” ~ Arnold J. Toynbee
- “I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned” ~ Duke of Wellington
- “I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.” ~ Gamal Abdel Nasser
- “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.” ~ David Mixner
- “Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.” ~ Sallust
- “Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.” ~ John Churton Collins
- “I’m an anarchist. I’m implacably opposed to hierarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.” ~ Will Self
- “Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.” ~ Hugh Mackay
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“Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.” ~ William Watson
- “Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.” ~ Joseph Joubert
- “It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.” ~ Barack Obama
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“Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it.” ~ Graham Greene
- “Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. … humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
- “If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.” ~ Jasmine Guy
- “I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together” ~ Ernest Hemingway
- “Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner – the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It’s like opening Pandora’s box.” ~ Jennifer Aniston
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“Movies’ mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.” ~ James Surowiecki
- “I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine.” ~ Ismail Haniyeh
- “I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.” ~ Edgar Quinet
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“To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You’d better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.” ~ P. J. O’Rourke
- “One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.” ~ Eric Hoffer
- “Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.” ~ Lilli Palmer
- “Responsibility and Trust — these two are like Yin and Yang, together perfectly complete, and each one requiring the presence of the other. The next time you mistrust someone, consider this — does that person feel responsible for you in any way? If the answer is yes, then go ahead and trust them. Very likely, they are looking out for your best interest.” ~ Vera Nazarian
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“We must dissent from the fear.” ~ Thurgood Marshall
- “One can mistrust one’s own senses, but not one’s own belief.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.” ~ Michelangelo Antonioni
- “A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always believed, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
- “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories… We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust… We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.” ~ Thurgood Marshall
- “It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.” ~ Christian D. Larson
- “What is perceptible to one’s mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the ever-recurring sameness of it, the pre-formations passed down by generation after generation, the ready-made language not only of the tongue but also of the sensations and the feelings.” ~ Robert Musil
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“Harmony can not thrive in a climate of mistrust, cheating, bullying; mean-spirited competition.” ~ Dalai Lama
- “Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.” ~ Alec Guinness
- “Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with profound consequences for inter-communal relations, political rhetoric and policies at the local, regional, national and international level.” ~ Tariq Ramadan
- “Sometimes it is better to have someone you mistrust close to you, so that you can keep an eye on him – Chiron” ~ Rick Riordan
- “In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality.” ~ Will Self
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“Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the end will destroy thee.” ~ H. Rider Haggard
- “I am unaware of his plans but I shall never stop believing in them because I cannot fathom them and I prefer to mistrust my own intellectual capacities than his justice.” ~ Alexis de Tocqueville
- “He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.” ~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
- “But, especially in love, only counterfeit emotions exist nowadays. We have all been taught to mistrust everybody emotionally, from parents downwards, or upwards. Don’t trust anybody with your real emotions: if you’ve got any: that is the slogan of today. Trust them with your money, even, but never with your feelings. They are bound to trample on them.” ~ D. H. Lawrence , Mistrust quotes love
- “To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures’ . . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.” ~ Richard Linklater
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“Better mistrust undeserved than rash words.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
- “The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from “Transcendental Etude” ~ Adrienne Rich
- “Jungians such as Joseph Campbell have generalized such journeys into a set of archetypal events and images. Though they can be useful in criticism, I mistrust them as fatally reductive. “Ah, the Night Sea Voyage!” we cry, feeling that we have understood something important — but we’ve merely recognized it. Until we are actually on that voyage, we have understood nothing.” ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
- “I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.” ~ Craig Ferguson
