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He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.
I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.
The day must come when trust will be as natural to your nature as distrust now seems to be.
There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them.
I think revolution happens when you distrust anything in its current state, including yourself.
Misinformation or distrust of vaccines can be like a contagion that can spread as fast as measles.
Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
Japan is prepared to break the shell of mutual distrust with North Korea and get off to a new start.
I think having a healthy distrust of authority is a good thing, within certain parameters, obviously.
But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.
I have a sustained distrust for all politicians, even those with whom I agree on more issues than not.
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
I think the failures of Republican governance led to a distrust of Republican elites, which is fair enough.
Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other.
Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.
O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
Helping refugees settle and integrate peacefully, often in the face of distrust and prejudice, is essential work.
Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.
Conservatives have deep distrust of government power, so I not only understand their privacy concerns, I share them.
The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical.
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.
Freedom rests on a rational distrust of government; government will always use its power to benefit the incumbent administration.
Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.
I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything authoritarian.
When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
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.
A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
People view the police not as allies, but as antagonists, and think of them not with respect or gratitude, but with suspicion and distrust.
Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue
We are a nation founded on distrust of government power, and questioning that power is essential to promoting transparency and accountability.
Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.
I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.
Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy, is often sufficient to make a person become one.
The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a little judgment.
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.
We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.
Egypt, once a melting pot of peoples, classes, cultures and religions, has, after 30 years of Mubarak's rule, become a place of intolerance and distrust of the other.
I think scientific arrogance really does give a great degree of distrust. I think people begin to think that scientists like to believe that they can run the universe.